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Speaker 1: New Zealand's first water crematorium though, has just opened in

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Speaker 1: christ Jurge. Apparently it's more environmentally friendly than you know

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Speaker 1: getting cremated with the fire. Deborah Richards is an operator

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Speaker 1: for the crematorium High Debbie.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Heather, how are you well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you? So does this basically work like this that

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Speaker 1: it breaks you guys? Take the body, put some solution

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Speaker 1: in and it breaks it down. Is that essentially that

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Speaker 1: the nuts and bolts of it.

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Speaker 2: So, yes, there's a little bit more to explain. But

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Speaker 2: we've imported a unit called a resumator from Leeds in

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Speaker 2: the UK, and it is it's essentially my background's nursing,

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Speaker 2: so it's essentially like a large sterilizer and it mimics

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Speaker 2: what happens to the body under the soil with burial.

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Speaker 1: It breaks us.

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Speaker 2: Down to our basic building blocks amino acids, sugars, soap,

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Speaker 2: and that is the liquid that's left behind. But most importantly,

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Speaker 2: the family receives bone ash, just as they do with

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Speaker 2: flame cremation. We pull the tray out from the resumator

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Speaker 2: at the end of the process. It's four to five

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Speaker 2: hours and the body is broken down to its basic

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Speaker 2: building blocks as I said, which is returned to the

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Speaker 2: water cycles as process liquid that goes to the water

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Speaker 2: treatment system. Family receive the bones because we pull the

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Speaker 2: bones the tray out. The bones are left behind and

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Speaker 2: anything that is not of the body hap implants, dental implants,

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Speaker 2: knee replacements, things like that. They are clean and can

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Speaker 2: be recycled. And the family receives about thirty percent more

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Speaker 2: ash than they would with flame cremation, and it's pure

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Speaker 2: white because so much more of the bones are preserved.

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Speaker 1: So you get could somebody opt to get all those

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Speaker 1: little leftover bits like the tooth caps and all that

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Speaker 1: stuff as well. Oh sure, so you can have like

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Speaker 1: a little container of ash and then a little container

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Speaker 1: of extras.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we can give them the urn with the ashes

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Speaker 2: in and whatever else they if that's what they choose

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, do you reckon he's going to take off?

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Speaker 2: I do. I do five people that are really wanting

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Speaker 2: to leave less of a carbon imprint or a footprint.

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Speaker 2: For those people that want to be emissing less carbon,

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Speaker 2: we amit about one hundred and eighty two more sometimes

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Speaker 2: more than two hundred forty kg of carbon with a

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Speaker 2: flame cremation, and more than seventy percent of US are

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Speaker 2: choosing flame cremation in alterio, are now so for those

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Speaker 2: people that want to act on climate change and are

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Speaker 2: concerned about their environmental impact? I believe so. I think

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Speaker 2: people do want to know what they can do to

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Speaker 2: address climate change, and this is now an option that

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Speaker 2: they can choose.

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Speaker 1: Debbie, Thanks appreciate it, Debbie Richards, who is the Christierge

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Speaker 1: Water Crematorium Director. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,

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