alkaline hydrolysis
Alkaline hydrolysis as a means of final disposition keeps growing in legality in states across the United States. Recomposition, the act of human composting becomes legal in the State of Washington this year, and now it is probable that the State of Kansas will see a bill introduced into its legislature to legalize “promession” as…
Read MoreAbout ten days ago we told you that Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home and Cremation in Jordan, Minnesota, was pursuing the idea of placing an alkaline hydrolysis unit in their business so that client families have a choice between flame cremation and alkaline hydrolysis – sometimes known as water or green cremation. According to this article, the…
Read MoreThe article begins, “Cremation and ground burial both have carbon footprints that have some people looking for other options for the afterlife.” That sentence pulled me in but what I went on to watch and read in this video and news story from Chemical & Engineering News pertaining to the “new” death care economy that…
Read MoreNine years ago, the Ballard-Sunder Funeral & Cremation business had a protracted discussion with community residents about allowing the first crematory in the city of Jordan, Minnesota, to open. Back then citizens filed lawsuits against the city and state that in effect said that zoning rulings for “funeral home” and “crematories” were not identical uses.…
Read MoreWe all know that over the long-term, such as the past 40 years between 1980 and now, change has occurred in the death care industry mainly by the advent of the almost universal acceptance of cremation. Most funeral homes have been able to weather that storm by offering services for both types of choices in…
Read MoreA written article and video news story from NBC Connecticut that you can see here tells the story of the death and eventual burial of Ms. Tessa Pascarella. The story is one of the difficulty of having a green burial on land you own and how that can be accomplished. To me, it is also…
Read MoreI spent three days last week in Las Vegas with about 150 other people from the death care profession. The group is a wide mix of people, with all of us having the death care industry in common. Some are small funeral home owner/operators like me, some are CEOs of the largest public death care…
Read MoreWithout even recognizing it funeral service has always had niche businesses inside of it. Even full service funeral homes could fit in the niche category if they exclusively catered to protestant or catholic clientele. . . or if they were a cremation society type discounter. We’ve always had some niche operations in the industry even…
Read MoreI read an interesting article the other day from the Washington Post that you can read here about the death of a 77-year old man in Washington state. It is an interesting article about a family’s decision to skip the funeral home and bring the man back to his home for three days of visitation…
Read MoreA bill that would make composting of human beings a legal form of human disposition cleared its first hurdle in the State of Washington passing a Senate vote with a 36-11 margin last week. You can read an article about the vote and Senate bill SB 5001 here. The bill’s main sponsor, Sen. Jamie Pedersen…
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