Water cremation set to become legal funeral option in Netherlands
https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/25/water-cremation-set-become-legal-funeral-option-netherlands
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Water cremation set to become legal funeral option in Netherlands
https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/25/water-cremation-set-become-legal-funeral-option-netherlands
Posted by Interesting-Cat7307
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Water cremation also known scientifically as alkaline hydrolysis or aquamation, is a funeral process that uses water, heat, and a basic chemical solution to dissolve a body into liquid and bone fragments instead of using fire.
Things to note :
1- Flame cremation takes about 2 to 3 hours. Water cremation takes significantly longer between 3 to 16 hours depending on the specific machine and the size of the body. This reduces how many services a facility can handle per day.
2- The process requires a massive amount of water roughly 300 to 350 gallons per body. In areas facing severe droughts or water shortages, utilizing hundreds of gallons of clean water to process a single body can be viewed as an environmental drawback rather than a benefit.
3- It typically costs $500 to $1,000 more than standard flame cremation. This is because the specialized high pressure equipment is incredibly expensive for funeral homes to buy and maintain ($180,000+ compared to $130,000 for fire units)
Soupification
Sounds like something from Dune lol.
is this unusual? It’s been available (for dead people) in Ireland for a while.
What do you do with the remains soup afterwards? Surely it would degrade over time sat in a container?
Bury in non descript holes and reuse after a few decades
yea! i wanna be slop!
It’s chemicals, alkaline, I think- I saw a program on how it works, very interesting. Put you in a tank, for a while, drain it out – presto!
I don’t really care, I don’t believe in the hocus pocus of needing your body in the afterlife
I prefer natural burials, ie wrap in gauze and bury in a hole in the ground.
What happens whit the water?
Like the new Starcraft trailer
Human soup theory
Take me to the water.
One of the hospitals i work for have a biological waste processing thing that makesburnable stuff for energy.
AFAIK they boil it to turn into a paste that they then dry into pellets.
This shit STINKS, it’s awfull. I hope there isn’t the same issue with this method.
We did this for my dog. The ashes come back clean. Seems likely to be cleaner for the environment than burning and vaporizing things like heavy metals, plastics, medical devices, etc.
Isn’t it hart to set a body on fire after it becomes wet?
So you can now end up like the woman in the bathtub from silence of the lambs? What a great day for the Netherlands.
Sounds so yucky
Soylent Green.
> water cremation
Cremation comes from “cremare” = burning. Waterburning? Really? Typical Dutch euphemism. Call it by its name: corpse dissolving. Lijk oplossing.
There’s a nice scene in Breaking Bad that comes to mind.
Sad to see the composting version is not yet proven to be good so far, glad to see that more forms of burials are finally getting accepted though! I hope my preferred method shall be soon as well, I want to become a field of mushrooms grown from a pod
I’m leaning towards a mycelium casket
This makes me think of soylent green 🤢
Boring. Call me when taxidermy becomes legal. My grandma ain’t long for this world and I’d love to just have her there, sitting on my living room couch to keep my pets company when I ain’t home.