Cryomation wins that Shell award

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Charles
Congratulations to Cryomation on winning a Shell Springboard climate change innovation prize -a notable vote for this new process, a worthy rival to cremation.
 
Don’t know what Cryomation is? Check out their website here.

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  1. Charles

    So what has happened in the last 8 years? It’s all rather confusing.

    See link to Daily Mail article below.

    BUT, note carefully that the Mail was wrong ( surprise, surprise ) on several counts including:

    (a) it was not a planning application for Cryomation, it was for ecoLation

    (b) the planning application to Sevenoaks DC had already been withdrawn when this article was written

    (c) a deep frozen body does not crystallise when frozen in liquid nitrogen. It is just a frozen corpse and very hard to break up into fragments.

    (d)There is no such thing as a filter that will then take out metal implants and tooth fillings from the other crushed up bits.

    The picture then shows a traditional burial. Well what’s the point of burying a fragmented dehydrated body at “traditional burial” depth? It will need to be wet again to decompose. It will expand when rain water reaches it and decompose very slowly if it is too dry.

    Still, we can hardly blame the Daily Mail when the Law Commission itself seems just as confused. Their report on the the 13th programme of Law Reform was laid before Parliament in December 2017. It contains a possible new project on ” A modern framework for disposal of the dead”. The project outline within the report states that bodies crystallise in the Promession/Cryomation process.

    And more than one council includes information about these types of “new processes” in so called “information” for the bereaved.

    Surely, there’s enough members of the ICCM, NAFD, SAIF etc that know that a dead body doesn’t turn into that strange glassy looking thing in the Daily Mail picture and all the Youtube etc video of Promession/Cryomation/ecoLation etc; maybe you could come out and say something and save all those people who call up various places asking if this carbon friendly freeze drying lovely looking alternative is available in England yet?

    In Sweden several people were held in deep freezers for more than 10 years with relatives waiting for “Promators” that never happened.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5292781/Sevenoaks-considering-eco-friendly-cremation-alternative.html#reader-comments

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