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In news– The body of Nobel Peace Prize winning Anglican archbishop and anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu underwent aquamation, a green alternative to traditional cremation methods, in Cape Town recently.

About Aquamation-

  • Aquamation, or alkaline hydrolysis, is a process in which the body of the deceased is immersed for a few hours in a mixture of water and a strong alkali in a pressurized metal cylinder and heated to around 150 degree centigrade.
  • The combination of gentle water flow, temperature and alkalinity accentuate the breakdown of the organic materials.
  • It has been defined as “flameless cremation”. 
  • Considered to be an environmentally friendly way to dispose of a body, the process is also known as water cremation, green cremation or chemical cremation.

  • The process leaves behind bone fragments and a neutral liquid called effluent.
  • The effluent is sterile, and contains salts, sugars, amino acids and peptides.
  • The decomposition that occurs in alkaline hydrolysis is the same as that which occurs during burial, just sped up dramatically by the chemicals. 
  • There is no tissue and no DNA left after the process completes. 
  • This effluent is discharged with all other wastewater, and is a welcome addition to the water systems.
  • The process of aquamation uses energy which is five times less than fire. 
  • The process is a greener alternative as it uses significantly less fuel and has an overall lower carbon footprint than cremation.
  • The process was developed and patented in 1888 by Amos Herbert Hanson, a farmer who was trying to develop an ingenious way to make fertilizer from animal carcasses.
  • The first commercial system was installed at Albany Medical College in 1993 after which the process continued to be in use by hospitals and universities with donated body programmes.
  • It was only in 2011 that the process was used in the funeral industry, at two funeral homes in Ohio and Florida, USA.

Further reading:  https://journalsofindia.com/desmond-mpilo-tutu/

 

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