The UK is taking steps toward legalizing "water cremation" as a new funeral method, providing a third option alongside traditional burial and flame cremation. The UK Law Commission is currently ...

Unconventional 'boil in a bag' funerals in which human bodies are liquified and disposed of in wastewater systems could be coming to the UK. A consultation of funerary methods by the Law Commission ...

A new style of funeral is coming to the UK, in the first major change for 124 years. Hydrolysis provides an eco-friendly option to conventional cremations or burials. Formally called water cremation, ...

Scotland has become the first part of the UK to introduce water cremation, the Scottish Government has announced. The process, known as hydrolysis, offers an environmentally friendly alternative to ...

Water cremation, known as hydrolysis, is an environmentally friendly alternative Scotland has become the first country in the United Kingdom to allow water cremations. The process, known as hydrolysis ...

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