When you consider the options you should ask how you can leave as small an environmental footprint as possible with
that final step you have to make.
Checklist of comparisons
Resomation® Cremation Burial
Can the process emit harmful emissions?
No Yes
No
Does the process sometimes add infected
No No
Yes
tissue to the soil and potentially the
underground water systems?
Does the process allow harmful
No No Yes
chemotherapeutic drugs and
embalming fluid found in some
bodies to contaminate the soil?
Does it use large amounts of
No Yes
No
gas energy and produce extensive CO2
output as a consequence ..adding to
global warming?
Are the resolved elements of the
No Yes
No
body destroyed rather than be
returned back to the earth
as nature intended?
In the process do you destroy ,damage
No Yes
Yes
or lose expensive titanium implants
and gold jewelery?
Does it require a wooden coffin
No Yes
Yes
to be burned or buried?
Does the process take up ever rare
No No
Yes
and expensive urban land required
for housing?
Is it the least expensive process?
Yes No
No
There has to be one "Yes" for Resomation® but at least it is a good thing.
Don't warm the planet more than required with your last step ....and also leave something positive behind for our childrens
future.
