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Want to save the planet even when you’re dead? Try water cremation

20 November 2019 - 09:00 By SIPOKAZI FOKAZI
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This snapshot of Earth taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera
This snapshot of Earth taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera
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Burial or cremation. That’s pretty much been the choice at funeral homes - until now.

Owing to land and carbon footprint concerns, we have a third option: dissolving bodies.

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