Assessing the Commercial Feasibility of Cryomation; the Zero Emission Alternative to Cremation

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With average global mortality rates at 0.085% over 60 million people will die this year.Cremation is the leading funeral process in the world. Cremating a 100kg body produces180kg of CO2 as well as atmospheric pollution with heavy metals. Traditional Burial with itsmemorials, cemeteries and their ongoing maintenance is considered to have the greatest longterm impact on the environment of all funeral processes. The world population is forecast togrow to over nine billion by 2050.Cryomation is a zero emission alternative to Cremation, developed through an award winningKTP at the University of Hertfordshire, which uses Liquid Nitrogen, freeze drying andaccelerated composting to produce sterile human remains, . The process has no fossil fuelburning incinerators, no harmful effluent streams and the remains can be buried in a muchsmaller space than other burial processes. The remains disappear to nothing so land could bereused for other family members. With an accelerated composting option, the remains arereduced to around 1/6th of the size of the original body and not only ideal for “green” funeralsand burial under trees but could also allow remains to be taken home in a pot, supporting thelife of a memorial plant.Having proven the science behind the process under the KTP, Cryomation want to evaluatethe feasibility of delivering the process commercially and quantify its potential to have asignificant, positive impact on the global environment, by reducing harmful emissions andmaking use of already scarce burial land.