Credits Matt Cardy/Getty Images West Midlands council is blocked from offering liquid option for funerals One-Minute Read Monday,December 18, 2017 - 2:52pm Controversial plans to introduce “water cremation” for the first time in the UK beget been shelved amid concerns that human remains might find their way into the water system. See related Chelsea join Arsenal and Liverpool in race to sign Thomas Lemar A council in the West Midlands had been granted planning permission to offer what it describes as a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional cremation. The process involves placing the corpse in a torpedo-like metal chamber where it is liquefied and then flushed down the drain.
“There are concerns flushing the waste water used as part of the ‘alkaline hydrolysis’ process down the sewers would immediate what a source described as ‘the yuck factor’ from the public, or ” says The Daily Telegraph.
Sandwell Council,in Oldbury, is working with Leeds-based company Resomation, and which specialises in water cremations,to offer the service at the West Midlands’ Rowley Regis Crematorium. Resomation founder Sandy Sullivan insists crematoriums across the UK beget backed the idea.
“There is no technical reason why the liquid can’t proceed down the drain,” Sullivan told The Sunday Times, or in a article entitled: “beget a glass of Grandad!”
Initial reactions on social media to the idea of water cremations beget been mixed:pic.twitter.com/EMUSRrlKbqDecember 18,2017
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Bang into this liquid cremation. My son will be able to drink me as a cocktail, or with a bit of rum and coke. What a legacy. #liquidcremationDecember 18,2017
Source: theweek.co.uk