Flameless Liquid Cremation

By Hal Peters

Science now offers a new option for the handing of human remains. We are talking about nothing short of transforming / disrupting the entire Funeral Industry.
The results are in: Flameless Liquid Cremation (where available) is preferred 9 out of 10 times for loved ones who have died. It is literally helping humanity “redefine” death!
Study this book, for after all . . . WE SHOULD BE IN CONTROL OF HOW WE MELD BACK INTO THE UNIVERSE!
Over 50 percent of people today in the USA are cremated after they die. Mostly economics is driving this increasing trend. The cost of “dealing with” the body of someone who has passed away is somewhat prohibitive.
This book is an introduction to a new, more dignified, and palatable way to have our physical body dealt with (after we die).
Not necessarily a pleasant topic to think or talk about, but necessary.
Flameless Liquid Cremation is now available in over one half of the States in the USA.
As the name implies, it does not use flames and heat to break down a body’s soft tissue. As detailed in this book, what Flameless Liquid Cremation offers is for all of us . . . to eventually (have the atoms that made up our physical body) – wind up in the Ocean . . . in effect . . . have “Burial at Sea”!
Just like with traditional Flame-based cremation, the family is left with an Urn, containing the solid crushed up bones (to do with what they want).
Leading environmental commentators have noted that cemeteries are getting crowded, and much of the 800,000+ gallons of cancer-causing embalming fluid used annually will wind up in our drinking water. Not to mention, in the US alone, it has been estimated that cemeteries interring people make use of 30 million board feet of hardwood and 100,000+ tons of steel (for caskets).
Without countervailing voices, challenging existing power structures (ex: the Funeral Industrial Complex), freedom to do with your body as YOU WISH will not happen. Without countervailing voices, a better way of handling our dead will not happen.
The future is unavoidable. Therefore, it is vital that people specify how they want to be treated, and their body handled, when one passes away. Look at this solution the author has elected to have performed. He wishes and is hopeful that it will be available in his NJ / NY area by the time his family has to confront this issue.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Dec 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665731867

Hal Peters

The author was born in Hungary. Came to the USA in 1960 (after President Eisenhower passed a law that refugees fleeing Communism are somewhat exempt from the standard Quota system. The Cubans, Vietnamese and Hungarians fell into this category). Has been a New Jersey resident since then. (Living around Parkway Exit 130). He believes in dealing with others, as you would want them to behave towards you. With honesty, generosity, and with clear headed thinking. He strives to know “something about everything”, and “everything about something”. Even with the Internet, these are impossible objectives to accomplish. But we do our best. He can be reached via [e-mail]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1   Introduction to Flameless Liquid Cremation

Chapter 2   Flameless Liquid Cremation—The Details

Chapter 3   Burial at Sea

Chapter 4   Desmond Tutu

Chapter 5   An Individual’s Transition Through Time and Space

Chapter 6   Physical and Metaphysical Aspects of Death

Chapter 7   Our Eventual Ends

A P P E N D I X A   Insights On Getting Old

A P P E N D I X B   Status of Flameless Liquid Cremation by State

A P P E N D I X C   Bibliography, Resources, References

A P P E N D I X D   Final Parting Images to Savor, Embrace, and Comprehend

DEDICATION

In recognition of the legacy left to us by Desmond Tutu.

Even in this area, you have shown us the way.

FOREWORD

When we brought the idea of alkaline hydrolysis to the funeral industry in 1998, there was virtually no interest in it. It had been used in the Willed Body program at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida since 1995. In 2005, Mayo Clinic decided to replace their crumbling incinerator with a single body human system that we designed and built in our company, WR2. This created some visibility for the idea of a single body alkaline hydrolysis system that could be used for human use.

Years later, on January 26, 2011, the first human body from a funeral home in Ohio was used and history was made. Since that time, alkaline hydrolysis has been approved in five Canadian provinces, twenty-six states in the United States, South Africa, and Mexico. More than 400 human and pet systems are operating around the world every day.

As people learn about the process, more and more funeral homes, cemeteries, and crematories are starting to use the technology.

When given the choice, over 80 percent of people prefer the idea of Flameless Liquid Cremation (also referred to as FLC) to flame-based cremation. Flameless Liquid Cremation has only a ten percent environmental impact, as compared to flame-based cremation, which uses fossil fuels.

As the late R. Brian Burkhardt, author of Rest in Peace: Insider’s Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral, said after seeing the process performed in 2011, You have no idea the impact you will have on the funeral industry.

Late last year, Archbishop Desmond Tutu chose to go through our Aquamation™ alkaline hydrolysis system in Cape Town, South Africa, citing his feeling that it is the most environmentally benign way to pass into the next life. Well Mr. Burkhardt, you were right: we really did not know the impact this would have. Ten years later, we have a good idea that it will continue to grow in popularity.

I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.

- Joe Wilson, CEO, Bio-Response Solutions, Inc.

PREFACE

We do not have the liberty to choose the time we come into this world or when we leave, but we do have authority over deciding about our melting away from this world.

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