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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Nation. Throughout the years, there have

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Speaker 1: been ways of different looking at different ways of disposing

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Speaker 1: of human bodies. Obviously in a tribal sense that people

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Speaker 1: have always honored the dead body somehow. But in our

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Speaker 1: Anglo Saxon culture, pretty much we put a dead body

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Speaker 1: into a casket, put it in the ground. The caskets

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Speaker 1: have changed over the years. You can get Barbara Carland,

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Speaker 1: I think was buried in a cardboard casket. People who

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Speaker 1: want to be environmentally just go back to the earth

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Speaker 1: with no big wooden cases left behind, etc. What about this?

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Speaker 1: Do you think you'd be interested in this, Brendan, Because

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Speaker 1: by and large cremation hasn't changed over the years. This

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Speaker 1: is a thing now happening in the States called water cremation,

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Speaker 1: an increasingly popular method of managing dead bodies by dissolving

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Speaker 1: them in chemical baths. Many choose it as an emotional

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Speaker 1: lifeline and a gentle way to release those they loved

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Speaker 1: from the living world. I'll tell you about the process.

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Speaker 1: It's called our line hydrolysis, known more colloquially as water cremation.

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Speaker 1: It's been gaining popularity in the States. It's there's like

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Speaker 1: let's go through the details. Inside this particular funeral home

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Speaker 1: in West Baltimore, a long silver chamber full of water

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Speaker 1: seaweed flops back and forth over a platform. Within it,

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Speaker 1: a body is dissolved, so it moves back and forth.

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Speaker 1: It tilts, and the skin, the flesh, and the organs

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Speaker 1: are turned into amino acids and sugars with each tip

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Speaker 1: of the chamber. In a matter of hours, all that

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Speaker 1: remains are bones and the leftover watery solution. And what

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Speaker 1: they do with the watery solution, I guess you just

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Speaker 1: put it down the drain or turn it into coconut water.

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Speaker 1: Death care professionals say that water cremation appeals to those

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Speaker 1: who resonate with the idea of themselves and their loved

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Speaker 1: ones departing the earth through water, Like maybe it's a burial, see,

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Speaker 1: I like the idea of a barrel and it would

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Speaker 1: you rather be eaten by fish creatures or dissolved? I

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Speaker 1: guess this is what would happen to your body in

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Speaker 1: the in the ocean. You would gradually dissolve. It's a

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Speaker 1: gentler process, they say, and it's a cleaner alternative to

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Speaker 1: fire cremation. Yeah, I don't like the idea of fire cremation.

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Speaker 1: That freaks me out a bit. Do you want to

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Speaker 1: do you want to take up space? You buried upright

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Speaker 1: on your bike, as much space as you call it.

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Speaker 1: I want to be proper. I want all my motorbikes

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Speaker 1: buried with me, and and I'm in some sort of

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Speaker 1: chariot and they're all in front of me. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I'm going to need a big bit of space. You're

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Speaker 1: like those men who insist that their nine wives jump

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Speaker 1: into the funeral pile. All your bikes are there. But

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Speaker 1: it's interesting, what are you doing about my bikes? Wives?

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Speaker 1: As baby boomers start to move into the generation, now,

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Speaker 1: who are you know? The older people passing away? This

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Speaker 1: is why we're seeing these shifting things. I was interested

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Speaker 1: to see that there's a new song that's become very

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Speaker 1: popular at funerals. It's not always look on the bright

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Speaker 1: side of life. It's this the theme from Jews. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I know, I was letting it bed it really Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the theme from Jaws is being become more and more

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Speaker 1: popular for people with their final farewell. Do they play

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Speaker 1: this as the caskets going into the kiln. It'd be

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Speaker 1: interesting if they play it and the casket tilts up

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Speaker 1: and then just gets dragged under. You could combine it

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Speaker 1: with the water creamation. Yeah. Well, you know, actually what

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Speaker 1: I wanted my funeral. I want to dancing k I'll

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Speaker 1: write it down so I remember. That's a good colab.

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Speaker 1: It's integration, man,