New Clean Alternative To Cremation: Freeze-Drying And Shattering

The process of promession seems complex, but it is actually simple. Instead of dressing the body for post-life services, you toss the casket into a large bucket ofLiquid nitrogen freezes the body, removes metals, and then shatters it.at -196 degrees Celsius.

You remove the casket from the liquid nitrogen. It shatters easily; a small vibration breaks it. Water evaporates from the powdery remains, and magnets remove metals, like fillings.

Place the freeze-dried remains in a biodegradable container and bury them in the ground, about a foot down.

Some people like scattering ashes but dislike promession ending that practice. However, if cremation fans know what happens in the crematorium, they might accept it.

Cremation is the most popular burial method in the United States, holding an "This sets an all-time high.according toSmithsonian Magazine reports this.. Cremation harms the environment. Burning a body takes about two and a half hours. That means 150 minutes of corpse smoke enter the air for every person cremated globally each day. Mercury in fillings and metal limbs, plus the body's sodium chloride, release toxins, which is bad for crematorium staff.

What is not well-known is this initial fire does not burn the bones or metal additions. These items need separate crushing in a machine called a cremulator. The family gets the ashes: crushed bones and fillings.

The current coffin burial method reportedlyharms the soilbecause the coffin adds no nutrients to the earth, and the wood finish is toxic. While letting bodies rot seems alarming, scientists suggest a better, eco-friendly way for humans to return to the earth.Turn them to compost..

The remains after promession go into smallBiodegradable coffins are used.These can be buried at a grave site. In months, the materials break down and become fertilizer.

If you choose a traditional gravesite for your promessed remains, you can plant a tree or flowers on the grave. The biodegradable coffin makes the soil at the site rich with nutrients, ready for the circle of life.The plant growing from the grave uses the deceased's organic materials.

Eating fruit from a tree grown from the deceased may seem strange, but people have done this for centuries without issue.

Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak states promise remains unauthorized.A Swedish biologist saw environmental damage from cremation and traditional burials. She sought a better solution. She views promession as a way to fix air quality, overcrowding, and soil problems from old postmortem practices.

Wiigh-Mäsak started testing "ecological burial" in 1997, but she still lacks approval to make this a legal option for post-life choices. She gained investors and supporters waiting for the funeral bureaucracy to act.

This might shock people. There isn't enough space for everyone in a coffin.Cemetery overcrowdingThe high cost of burial and overcrowding cause the world to shift toward cremation as the main post-life ritual.

Traditional burial harms the environment. Coffins act as a hindranceto the body's natural decay. They also use toxic finishes that poison the soil. The body becomes waste instead of enriching the soil like organic matter should.

It is stillillegalBecause it is not legal for human remains to use promession as their postmortem practice, testing the process on humans is forbidden. Wiigh-Mäsak and her team thus became used to receiving regular deliveries of deceased pigs.

Pig flesh isclose to human fleshin texture, making them good test subjects. Animal cruelty avoids these experiments since the pigs are not alive. The pig experiments provided "The process shows excellent results," and Wiigh-Mäsak hopes to test the process on humans soon.

Many people who wish to undergo the process are already deceased. Since Wiigh-Mäsak's promession started, she gained many fans and advocates; some people have passed before the process became legal.

However, the idea of "people in freezers" is a concept the opposition to promession often mentions.

In Sweden, the home of the promession revolution, the crematory industry fights back. A turf war erupted for control of the postmortem industry, and Wiigh-Mäsak claims the Swedish Federation of Cemeteries and Crematoria (SKKF) seeks to discredit her.

The exact truth remains unknown until promession can be tested on humans. When the Federation of Crematoria asked about Wiigh-Mäsak's technology, they said it fails and keep spreading rumors about the technology as part of the postmortem industry's official policy. The Federation even refused to answer questions about the practice. For instance, the phone cut off when A reporter fromWired contacted them for a quote.

Wiigh-Mäsak argues her promise technology might lessen the repression and taboos about our death. Discussing this topic is hard in many cultures, but our discomfort with grief might harm us later.

Wiigh-Mäsak believes the crematory industry exploits this.She toldWired: "I think it's very convenient for the cremation industry to keep the taboo because then they can work without questions." She sees sterility in the traditional postmortem industry's damaging methods. A change in death practices and attitudes is needed.

She thinks loved ones will find comfort knowing the circle of life continues as their loved one becomes compost in the soil.