For many unfounded reasons, water cremation, also known as alkaline hydrolysis, aquamation and resomation, has a bad reputation ( I don’t give a damn ’bout my bad reputation!! bownownanananan). This is likely due to the sensational (albeit captivating) Hollywood story lines and urban legends spun about how criminals use water and acid to “melt bodies”. It doesn’t help when the news media and people in positions of power decry alkaline hydrolysis because they think it’s “icky,” and publish headlines such as “Ontario funeral business dissolves the dead, drains liquid into sewer system.” Representative Dick Hamm of Indiana was quoted as … Continue reading Five Things You Didn’t Know About Water Cremation