Thank you as always for being a great educator Atheist.... this reminds me of ALTERED STATES film&book......people float in alkaline baths without light and wired to monitor their brain waves and vitals while they sleep ..... how long does this "water cremation" take for a cadaver to be disolved and how are the bones & teeth crushed "into ash" ? This could change my self interrment party saying goodbye with music kegger & a go to sleep pill and never wake up covered in my fold up coffin bed and Iowa farm topsoil.....could dead humans finally become compost & fertilizer for the birds worms bees and blooms ?

Compost, Beats the hell out of Soylent Green.

No money much in water.

Makes it hard for me to come back as a zombie. I guess I can work with mermaid.

How about I just donate my body to a zoo, where bears or other man-eating animals may enjoy my body as a meal.

sensible alternative
but then when were the religious sensible

I hope they wait until they are dead

I think referring to this as "water cremation" or "dissolving in water" is highly misleading. It's chemical cremation. My main question is whether or not this actually neutralizes/destroys pathogens and pharmaceuticals. Secondly, whether or not any secondary compounds arising from the reaction are safe. I would also think for this to be effective, the solution would have to be at some minimum alkalinity at the end of the process, in order to ensure that the reaction is total and complete.

We have a place in my small town, in Oregon, that offers aquamation. I wanted to go this route until I learned about mushroom suits; now, that's what I want done.

I like George Carlin's idea ... cremate me and add my ashed to a pound of pot and let everyone smoke me at my funeral...

Damn Catholics!

Hmmmm... I don't think I'd like being poured down the drain