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Water cremation and human composting could be offered over traditional funerals

by austinallegro on 6/8/25, 4:35 PM with 1 comments

• by gryfft on 6/8/25, 4:42 PM

  > The resulting liquid is checked and treated if necessary to enter the wastewater system

  This is the hard-sell bit by my reckoning. Regardless of the cold hard chemical reality, I simply can't see a majority of ordinary folks stomaching flushing dead bodies down the drain.