Just when you think there’s nothing interesting to blog about, you stumble upon another environmental jaw-dropper! Most of us have probably thought about how we want our bodies to be handled once we’re gone. The usual options include burial or cremation, but now (for you hard-core greenies) there’s resomation. Reso-what? Resomation, a process by which a body is placed into a chamber which is flooded with water and a highly alkaline chemical called potassium hydroxide, is being billed as a greener alternative to cremation because no greenhouse gases are released.
At the end of the three-hour process, which causes the body to dissolve, all that is left of the body is bone, which can be ground to a powder and returned to the family. Mercury, from dental work, can even be recovered and disposed of properly during resomation. According to an ABC News article, “The water, which contains broken-down organic materials, is funneled into standard municipal water treatment facilities and returned into the hydrological cycle.”
So what do you think of this green way to go? Would you consider it?