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

20 November 2019 - 09:00
By SIPOKAZI FOKAZI
This snapshot of Earth taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera
Image: REUTERS This snapshot of Earth taken by the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera

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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