Alkaline Hydrolysis Unit Tour 

this method should be approved in all states ASAP

Mr. Edwards performed this service for my sister as she had wished. I am very thankful to Mr. Edwards for his explaining the process and being such a caring man. For those who need to know more about the process please read up on it. There were some very hurtful comments in the Columbus Dispatch related to this process directed at Mr. Edwards and our family for having this process performed as per my sisters wishes.

We have it here in Maine. I am trying to get the word out. We just used it for a family member, he was a sailor and loved the ocean so it seemed like a nobainer!

This is what I did for my sister in January. This helps me visualize better the process. This is what I am choosing for myself as well.

When I was in Italy,I was told that to was used for wine making!! Now I know where all those missing bodies actually went.

I am a Physical/Chemical waste treatment operator in North Carolina. In the municipality where I work, the discharge to the city can range from a pH of 6.5 to 11.0, as directed by our wastewater permit. We are a factory with an onsite pre-treatment facility. The factory discharges the pre-treated water and the city "finishes" the wastewater. If this gentleman could set up an approved pre-treatment facility, he would be able to apply for a wastewater permit in his municipality. As he mentioned, different cities may have different requirements, depending on that particular municipality's waste treatment facility.

I’m not fond of the idea of being burned up or liquified. The “Ick Factor” is too much when I consider family & grief. Burial is a family tradition I’m not willing to break. Thankfully, we all have a choice! Thank you for sharing this important information.

My kids asked me how I wanted my remains to be disposed of and I told them, "I don't know, surprise me".

This is so cool! It's been around since 1880 as someone stated in another video but what a revolutionary and up to the minute technology!

If you have a funeral here, DON'T HAVE THE SOUP! lol

Interesting technology as an alternative to cremation. When I was a child, I lived in a semi-rural area. The area improved after a freeway was created nearby. After we left, the house was sold to a crematorium. Imagine where you slept as a kid and dreamed one day housing a crematorium with many bodies passing through. Sweet Dreams y'all!

Thanks soo much for sharing

I would like to see this in a future "Saw", movie. Love it!

Wouldn't concentrated acetic acid be better than using Carbon Dioxide to remove the alkalinity of the waste? The reason I mention this is that most hydrolysis cremations are marketed as producing less CO2 for the environment because they don't burn gas. Acetic acid is vinegar. Totally natural and easy to source. When mixed with alkalines the product is a neutral acetate.

Hopefully before I go, Ohio will allow this to be done, hands down I would like this for me.

Dr Edward has such vast amount of knowledge on the " aquamation " ..,,,only diff bet cremation n aquamation is that time diff and equation is process of decomposition,,,compared to being burnt instant,,,,

this is what i plan on doing!!!

How would the chemical solution get at the brain when inside the skull, some people are not autopsied when they die?

Saw another one of these and the director took the left over fluid & put in jugs loaded them in his van and took home to put on his garden LOL

It,s coming to holland in 2019..i,m HAPPY...

@barberman2000... to power your computer also takes energy.

Any updated information on to the availability/legality of alkaline hydrolysis here in Ohio? I can't find any info more recent than 2012.

How much does it cost? Can you keep the bones in their natural state?? Thank you for your answers.

i want this when i die!

How many places around the country are doing this now? It's given me some food for thought.

Nice

We need that in PA

What sort of investment is necessary for each of the Low Temperature units, as opposed to the High Temperature ones?

I’d be content to have my remains disposed of this way. I’ve no urge to decompose under the ground. Only to be dug up in a few hundred years for some buildings to be put up.....just dissolve me, and be done with me.

What about folks who are very large how would you load them into that small thing.

When I die I don't want to be flushed down the drain with poop.

So what would or what does my soup look like once the process is complete before it is sent down the drain?

That’s how I want to go!!!!!

Can I just go out like Arnold like in Terminator 2? Just lower my body into molten metal. Kinda hope that metal gets used for ship building.

Is there a place in SC that does this and how much does it cost?

Is it hot water how long does it take to complete the process how much does it cost and can a Canadian person get done

Do u use hot or cold water I am seriously thinking about this for myself.

SO, can the love ones get the skeleton of their love one instead of it being ground up?? He forgot to say the chemical only deals with the flesh it doesn't dissolve the bones from what I understand from other sources

Clearly the bigger issue here should be that the allowable EPA standard is 12.5. Anyway, whenever I finally kick it, I wouldn't mind taking a final swim.

I keep thinking that the tray/tube isn't that big/wide. What (size) does it stop at? It looks like if you wore a dress size of say -12 youd just squeeze in there. Also, I am curious to know what the price differential is offered by opting for this VS you basic cremation by fire/heat. Anyone have an actual answer?

Is the body just being dissolved in a strong alkali, then? If so, are we being made into soap, effectively, then?

We as a person taken away remain only our hardware we as a person never die we have to face what we did

Watch the video from start to finish! All your questions will be answered!!! I think some ppl don’t watch the whole thing and assume the worst or they just don’t listen!!!!! He clearly said it’s not harmful to the water system! Why do u think it’s called green cremation?????

Does it smell? I’ve heard the facility / room smells bad. I still want aquamation.

you start at the toes and work towards the nose

When will this be in the UK , its a good idea and a better choice.

Wauw...its greate...its clean , faster, And better for the nature. it Just no Gas , Just water. .I hope this is coming to Europe ( also to Holland ) thanks for this movie. ...

I love the whole idea of flushing granpa down the toilet... LMAO OMG!!!!!

Watch action lab blogs videos & see up close & first hand what the chemicals they use in that machine to to a chicken in an opened container. The chicken quickly turns to soup !

And here we have the Binford 5000 Aquamation" unit. Arr Arr Arr. I can only hope that the powers that be approve this for Montana. I am considering "natural burial" but have doubts of the viability of the place that i visited. Seems like a shoe string budget operation and is VERY EXPENSIVE. I don't want to chance the place going under and someone digging my ass up 10 or 15 years down the road.

Wow I wonder if Maryland has one of those cause I would go for that after I die

Just going to stand there and watch me melt, but that’s all right because I like the way it felt.

Wait he has a funeral home in Marion Ohio

SHOW ME THE MONEY !! How much for this trip ??

I wish they did it in my state in Dallas Texas I feel fire cremation is a lil too harsh 😔

"" So sooory, for you, but my loved ones deserve better than to go down the sewers, and into our drinking water.!

Where can I get one?

He should appeal the decision. Having a body disposed of in this way is no worse than the traditional methods of burial and cremation as far as I can see. If this method poses no health or other hazard to the public and the next of kin have given permission, I personally can see nothing wrong with the method (on moral grounds at least) and see no reasonable grounds for the authorities refusal to grant a licence. If they don't like the idea of liquefied human remains being emptied directly into the city's sewers then they can specify that it be disposed of in some other way. BTW, what were the grounds on which the authorities refused a licence?

Does the body have to go into the machine naked as i guess it won’t dissolve fabric

What if you have a phobia of small spaces?

So i assume with this method the family gets NOTHING to take with them or bury or spread out or stick on a shelf, etc???????

I can't imagine living through eight hours of knowing my loved one is being dissolved.

@camfido1... goes to water treatment plant. The same as when everyone who goes to the bathroom to take care of business, that too, goes to the water treatment plant.

I want them to turn me into a dead body soda pop...just shoot my water into my soda stream ;) Joking!! I do think this is an amazing process and something that has seriously changing my views on being cremated!

What KOH or NaOH proportion?

I wouldn’t mind flame based cremation either. But, it does cause pollution. I believe fire is cleansing. But.....I don’t need to leave a carbon footprint because of this belief I have. I’d be happy with this. Hopefully it will be available for everyone soon, everywhere.

what happens to the solution afterwards

add carrots, celery, potatoes and onions. Lightly baste and pressure cook for 6 hours.

disposal, not "disposition".

So your Soylent green needs Calcium Supplements ?.

This method is must better than flames in the oven.

I’m getting turned into a diamond or diamonds for my kids but this would be a good second option

I wish we had this in n.c.

what if a person is obese do they have one big enough for them

I believe this will become.the future of disposing of corpses.. Where is Jimmy Hoffa? He went into the waste treatment facility in Jersey and his bones were thrown into the bay... This process appears more economical and an added benefit is the reclamation of titanium parts as well as all artificial materials surgically implanted can possibly be reprocessed and used in future patients. Time to drive to Columbus and look into this process.

Where the liquid go? Is it used to other bodies?

Columbus Ohio my hometown 🏡

Build a big pyre, set my body on top, and set me ablaze! Or put me in a small wooden boat and set in on fire as a sail away!

Most of the people I see at Walmart won’t fit in this thing, too fat. Have you got a bigger one?

What funeral homes offer this in the US?

so cool

so theyre no ashes

Is it expensive ?

I’d rather decompose in a natural cemetery and help the environment that way.

Excellent alternative to burial or cremation. I like the thought of my body being separated naturally into water, this sounds like a more peaceful way to go rather than being blasted by fiery flames of hell in a crematory, or being left to rot slowly in the earth being eaten by maggots. Come on every one this has to be the best way for our body’s to go.

There are a few people I would stick in there 😂

i'll take regular burial, thanks. I'm good. That looks like a pressure cooker. No thanks!

is very similar to aquamation sort of like a common grave in that sense this is just the recycling process of hell.

Is it safe with covid or any other infectious deseases?

this method is crazy i

that would freak me out dead or alive lol

Few people could fit in that tube anymore! No customers!

At least there are no bugs. I think I prefer cremation. When you are embalmed, your blood goes into the toilet-sewer. What is the difference between that and the rest of the body going here?

So we are going to be drinking people?

I'm going out like that or if God just takes me up like Enoch (kjv) Then be planted in a tree

So this guy has three missing ex wives...hmm.

So instead of being burned by fire, you are melted by a strong drano solution... Nice...

I like this process over the added heat and pressure processes, BUT.... Why is the "fluent" just dumped? The whole point of this process is that it is a greener way to be "processed" and that it is similar to being processed in nature, but once the body is processed it is then treated as a traditional waste with the bones then being processed similar to cremation. (Forgive the overuse of the word process, I was trying to find a nice way of getting my point across) Why stop short? Why not use the glycerine produced by this process from the fats and make some soap or any of the other thousand uses that glycerol has? As far as the other bits that remain after the glycerine is removed, this can be dried and compressed into time release fertilizer pellets, then you can add a little of it to your plants and when those daffodils flower in the spring you can convince yourself that it's grandma smiling at you! I am sorry if what I am saying comes off harsh, but as someone who likes this process for it's greenness what I don't like is how it is modeled after current fire cremation practices and how the liquefied body is treated like waste and then "processed" like waste in the current linear fashion which is what got us into trouble to begin with! I could go on, but I am sure I would upset quite a few people... That's not my intention....

So it goes into the sewer system. Hey, let's drink grandpa.

def one size fits all. ha ha ha ha ha