WATERY GRAVE
Splashes to splashes… it’s a water cremation! Evidently, boil-in-the-bag funerals are to become available in Britain after catching on in the US, Canada and South Africa. Co-op Funeralcare will offer the service in a pilot later this year. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? A relaxing way to go, a bit like floating on a warm sea.
Er, not quite. The deceased is enclosed in a biodegradable pouch and placed in a container filled with pressurised water and potassium hydroxide, boiled at 150°. This turns tissue and cells into a watery solution, over a period of four hours. You basically end up a bag of sludge with a few bones. Those bones
