WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) – When a loved one dies, aquamation is an alternative method to traditional burials or cremations that is rising in popularity. Aquamation uses the same natural ...

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In Western societies, disposing of a dead body has come down to two choices: there’s burial, and there’s cremation. Occasionally, a corpse is donated to science, but even those remains usually make ...

INDY Week: How did you get into the business of aquamation? Hunter Beattie: In my twenties I was doing a lot of renewable energy work … then kind of fell off the path from that. I was trying to come ...

"Aquamation," a greener form of body disposal, is gaining acceptance in America. But some powerful groups are fighting to stop it. Samantha Sieber’s grandfather had a traditional American burial. His ...

The process is the same as that which occurs naturally when a body is buried, though at an accelerated rate Digital News Writer, PEOPLE Human rights activist and anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond ...

Francisco Rivero proudly shows off a large stainless steel pod in the middle of a cavernous concrete room. He unlatches its heavy vault door, swinging it open slowly to reveal an inner chamber just ...

Eternal Tides Owner says aquamation — which uses water, heat and alkaline chemicals to break down the body — uses 90% less energy than cremation and is used in some states for humans. Curtis Sullivan, ...