Burial
"My children and grandchildren will know that I thought of them, even when dealing with my own mortality. I would not wish to harm them in any way, shape or form."
Burial Tradition
The first recorded burial took place over three-hundred-fifty-thousand-years ago, when the population of the world was less than 10,000. Today, 6.8 billion people inhabit our planet (four times as many as just 100 years ago). We must decide, as did our ancestors, how best to care for our deceased.
Burial Results in Liquified Remains
Burial results in 93% of the body becoming liquid. The liquid often enters local aquifers. According to the World Health Organization, as many as 19 million Americans may become ill each year due to the parasites, viruses and bacteria in drinking water. Prions, including Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, can survive in the deceased for years. Bacterium and viruses have led to pandemics which have caused loss of life greater in number than all those who have died in war. Link to a video on the History of Pandemics.
No Public Health Risks
As with burial, an alkali disposition results in 93% of the body becoming a liquid. The alkali disposition results in the liquid remains being pathogen free. One's body can no longer harm one's family or friend.
Burial and Embalming
Studies have shown funeral directors have a high rate of cancer, linked to the use of formaldehyde. It is a well-known toxin, allergen, and carcinogen. Countries, including the United States, will likely issue a complete ban on the use of formaldehyde, as it is a biocide, meaning it is capable of killing living organisms. In the United States alone, about 7 million gallons of embalming fluid is pumped into human remains displacing the blood. The blood is not treated as a bio-hazard, as it would be at most other setting. The blood is released into the sanitary sewer. Links to information on embalming:
Drinking grandma: the problem of embalming and
Mini documentary on embalming.
CycledLife and Embalming
CycledLife neutralizes formaldehyde, rendering it harmless.
Burial and Consumption Death can ironically be the beginning of an endless cycle of consumption of resources. Burials that involve caskets, vaults, and cemetery plots require the use of vast amounts of land, concrete, metals, and wood. For centuries thereafter, there is the never ending use of fuel, water, pesticides, and fertilizer (nitrogen consumes 2% of the world's natural gas) used to keep burial grounds "green".
CycledLife and Consumption
CycledLife requires the use of water, alkali, and energy. The water and alkali are returned to the earth, so they are recycled. The energy usage is equivalent to that contained in about 2.5 gallons of gasoline, an energy savings equivalent to 23.5 gallons of gasoline compared to a cremation.
Green Burial
Green burial excludes the use of toxic embalming fluids, concrete vaults, and non-biodegradable caskets. Although pragmatic, green burials unfortunately do not address the pathogen challenges of a body’s natural decomposition, disease causing microorganisms - bacterium and viruses, plus prions.
CycledLife and Green Burial
CycledLife is the perfect complement to a green burial. Alkali disposition solves the problems with green burials. Green burials require the movement of lots of dirt to bury a body. As many green burials are designed to create a land conservation, the upheaval of the soil is undesirable. Further, it limits the placement of bodies both in terms of where a grave can be physically dug and as to how many bodies can be buried on a parcel of land. CycledLife reduces the footprint of the gravesite. It eliminates the problem with wildlife exhuming the deceased. Those who choose embalming could still have a green burial, as CycledLife would render the formaldehyde harmless. This would allow for this option to have a wider consumer appeal. CycledLife eliminates any concerns about public health risks; as, it destroys 100% of the bacteria, viruses and prions leading to pathogen free remains.
Continuing the Tradition
With CycledLife, families can bury the deceased in a manner that protects the lives of survivors for generations to come.
We can now minimize the public health risks and consumption of resources, at the time of our deaths. CycledLife gives us the option to choose to bury our loved ones in a manner that respects the deceased and the living.
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