Aquamation: When a pet is cremated by water - not fire
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Knowing that his dog once loved water activities, owner Joshua chose to cremate his 11-year-old poodle by aquamation - a process that uses heated water and alkaline chemicals to mimic the natural decomposition process. Here's a look at how it works.
The company behind it hopes people in Singapore could likewise be cremated by water, not fire, in the future. Read: cna.asia/41bts9Q
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What stood out to me was how Sandy was treated with respect. Washing, brushing her fur and placed in a beautiful setting for the owner.
We just lost our baby boy 3 days ago and he was about to be aquamated. I had no idea of aquamation but when I saw this, I felt relieved that he will be in good and gentler hands even in death. Thank you for posting this.🙏
So sorry for your loss
The people that do the cremation are very respectful and kindness to the deceased pet! Such 🙏 from ohio
I just noticed this video was released six days before my baby girl died last year. The thing is, we had no idea Aquamation was even a thing until the day she died. We found a pet aftercare place in our area that does it, which was a blessing: She loved water, I didn’t want to bury her, and she was afraid of fire.
Thank you for posting this ❤
I just lost my best friend last night. My 9 year Golden Retriever had to be put to rest because of cancer. Im hurting so much right now! Thank you for this video. It will be nice to have something of her back.
how are you holding up?
@@jillapril I'm doing better. Got her ashes back a few weeks ago. I know she's not here physically, but I know she's with me in memory and heart.
Certainly the most heartbreaking thing I've gone through.
@@chairforce0928 i’m really sorry to hear that. We have to put my cat down on Thursday and I am just distraught. Mostly because until June I didn’t even know he was sick. And then all of a sudden he started getting worse by the month. I’m lucky we got extra time with him but… Like… It’s just crazy that six months ago he was completely fine.
It seems that every one is losing their pets to cancer I lost my baby girl to cervical cancer and she had it her whole life and she was 9 1/2 years old it was the hardest thing I ever did.
So, basically their bodies are dissolved.
I held my dog when then they put her to sleep. She understood what was happening because I told her, and when we got to the vet, she immediately calmed down and closed her eyes and slept for the first time in three days. She didn't flinch at all when they shaved her little arm or even when they put the needle in. I held her and sang to her the entire time, and I felt her heart jump and slow down to a stop. They let me stay with her as long as I wanted. It was the point during the pandemic that was just starting to ease up a bit, so I didn't know when I would get her cremains back, but I actually got them within one week, and it came with a certificate that she was cremated by herself and the ashes were hers and nothing else. It was packaged so beautifully, and tyhe box it came in was more beautiful than the picture. When I went in to pick it up, I told them that I appreciated how respectful they had been toward me and to my Boxer. And, I wanted them to tell the technician who came out to my car to carry her in for me, that I appreciated his kindness and compassion, and that she looked over his should at me as we went in, and she looked as she did when she was a puppy and I knew then I made the right decision. So, I wanted them to thank him for me, because he had faciltated that to occur.
It is really all about how you and your pet are treated. They made things so much easier, and so did my sweet Boxer.
When I got home, within 30 mintues, my friend and I heard the doggy gate open and shut. No one else was home. I would see her when I would turn a corner, or turn around and see her for a split second and I would jump. I was at my desk, where she would sometimes lay down on the floor next to me, but I moved my foot and it touched something. I looked down to see what it was, and there was nothing there. Once I had her cremains, I no longer saw or sensed her. But, I wasn't handling her loss very well at all. It took about a month - 1/2 until I started looking for a Boxer. With the pandemic, the Boxers were very expensive, and I couldn't find one under two. Finally, I saw an ad for Boxer puppies about 45 minutes away. I went to see them, fell in love, and went back for the little girl I picked out when she was 8 weeks old. Her mother kissed me on the cheek before I took her baby. My puppy had a pink heart on her lips!! It is fading, but still there a little bit. For about a month, I would find my puppy in the living room staring at something and I had to break her view at whatever she was staring at, and I would ask her what she was staring at. She would look back in that direction and wag her tail. I think it was the spirit of my other dog.
When I die, her cremains will be buried with me. If this dog is gone too, her cremains with be with me also.
The water idea is interesting and I like that it is more environmentally friendly. But, just make sure whatever you choose, that they are going to treat you and your pet with dignity and respect.
She has become an amazing, loving, sweet dog.
This is so true. We're about to get our beloved cat Yuki water cremated. All the normal crematoriums were iffy about being empathetic and would get tired of my questions. One even stopped responding. But this aquamation place I've been talking to has been incredible so far. The way they talk about our beautiful girl, they're accomodating all the the requests I've asked for, they're prompt in their replies...
I buried all my pets in my garden in Malaysia . It Is like pet cemetery . They turned into fertilizer for my plants . I want to be buried the same way . I think this is more environmental friendly .
Its the best way. Natural burial. Plus you respect the deceased body, not need to burn or potong potong or get stuffed with chemicals. All goes back to mother nature how she intended it to be.
@@AnefAthens fire in the hole
@Mira what i meant with potong potong was you cut here, cut there, yank and stitch postmortem taxidermy on their dead pets etc. some keep the head only so kena potong lorr. Also while were on tht subject, you search for “sky burial” here on youtube. I think its Tibetan if m not mistaken maybe they do the same for their beloved pets.
Agreed 100 percent.
yes that is the best, but some places the people really have scarcity of land and burial is really not an option for them :( or way too expensive
So peaceful. You two are so compassionate and respectful.❤
We lost our 17.5 yr old lab retriever named QQ.. and we are so glad to have engage Green Mortician services. They are professional and very thorough in their explanation on the process and giving us time and space as well. The rooms were very family friendly and warm and it really makes us feel welcome. It was not a rushed process but a peaceful transition. It was a well made decision for us. Thanks much to Yang and the team for taking care of our little princess in her final journey.
Poor fur baby… she may rest in piece 🪦💐
Yes, pieces! 😂
Have you matured since writing your comment? @@jessicaregina1956
Thank you so much for this respectful aftercare for pets.
Last Friday we lost our cat Maxie and she had a renal problem and heart murmur. It was very hard to see her off and I’m still grieving for her. The doctor said that she would not get any better and she was dehydrated and very weak. She was always with me wherever I went. I used to take her out for walks holding her like a baby and I used to sing for her and she used to love it. She is always in our hearts and we remember her every day and night how she used to walk around the house like a queen.
Sorry for your loss my dog passed away last night
@@christophersmith532 I’m sorry for your loss. It is very hard to lose a pet
Lost my baby girl last week. Wish we could have done this for her but she actually hated water 😅
The urns look amazing- II like this process but would like to know more about the residues and how they are treated safely and but back into the eco sysytem
Rest in peace
Respect🙏🙏🙏🙏
Which part of using 800litres of water is eco friendly?
None of it. Neither are the chemicals released into the waterways. All they're doing at the treatment plant is killing off any bacteria or viruses that might be present.
This process turns your pet into soap then puts that directly into the environment.
None
Yeah man, how about bittorrent, computer on so long? Has Ho Ching gone crazy???
If Ho Ching talks so much, she uses endothermic reaction for everything lah, since all chemical reaction is exothermic!!! #%^£_&£&
If Ho Ching is as Liberal as California, when she has not done anything to put a California democracy in Singapore???
😭😭😭😭😭My eight and a half year old Jack Russell passed away last night from kidney failure. It happened so suddenly; she was such a happy vibrant dog. Now, for the first time in 29 years, our home is petless. She was a rescue and had an autoimmune disorder.
Two of our other dogs have had aquamation.
I'm processing a lot as we speak....
I had just lost my fur baby girl yesterday, and I choosed her to be aquamated. I am grateful that I found a local facility that provide this method. The staff handled her gentle and gave her a heartwarming welcome when he pick up her body at my place.
I lost my kitty this morning he’s on my pfp and my parents were planing on burying him in our backyard, because of costs and what not, I told them I would help pay, I managed to convince them to aquamate him, I wanna have something from him like ashes! we are planing to take him to be aquamated tomorrow, he’s been fighting to be with us for 5 days now and I know he’s at peace in heaven and I’ll see him again, he’s just my childhood cat we got him when I was 4 years old, I’m crying so much as I’m typing this, it’s so hard to lose a loved pet! I’m praying the best for you to heal, even though the pain will never get better! ❤🥺
We decided to do this for our angel. We just lost him last week. The people were very accomodating.
Do you know where to acquire schooling to learn this?
It’s so much more gentle.
We dont have garden so we decided to do this for our lovely Accel 😢thank you Pet to Nature!
they handle the dead dog witb much respect, the place is so sacred and very clean, you people are amazing.......not like the Philippine animal crematoriums , no respect for the dead and they would not allow the pet parents to see the animals being put inside the chamber
rest in peace inheaven Sandy xxxxxxxxoooooooo
800 liters is not eco friendly i think?
you consume at most 8 litres of water a day. so its about 100 days or 3 months for your pet, but i reckon this water goes back into the soil to act as nutrients for plants to grow.
@@sim.ulationkoyo makes sense, just thinking 800litres of cleaning water is quite a lot
@@sim.ulationkoyo the water gets treated before being released, basically using up energy as well.. doubt it's so eco friendly. Imagine one pet = 800 litres, how is it eco friendly for humans etc
@@theachilles96 And what about your bodily fluids when you are being embalmed? It goes down the drain, directly into the sanitary sewer system. The solution is made Ph stable before being sent down the drain. The amount of energy to heat the lye and water solution is FAR LESS than cremation.
It is liquifying or like using acid to dissolve organic material. But I think they are using alkaline instead. Really more environmentally friendly? Using harsh chemicals and water compared to cremation?..debatable...
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i was wondering if instead of having the bones turned to ash. could it be an option to keep the bones instead of?
I like this for my cremation i passed on. Hope one day it can be applied to human beings.
🙏 The Poodle must have accumulated Good Karma to be loved this much! ... 🙏 May the Poodle be blessed to a Better World & Realm ... 🕯🌼🌿🍖🐩 ... p.s. Utilizing cleaner fuel fire cremation would still be faster & uses less resources like water or land ...
Look at all the water that is used and all the gunk from all the blood etc, were does it go, down the drain? Not so good
How do you manage the waste water
It goes into the sanitary sewer and is treated at the Waste Plant and discharged into a stream of other body of water. In a lot of cases when the water is discharged, it is cleaner than your drinking water. It is a very closely monitored process. I get a kick out of when people say, "you can't just flush me down the drain". I ask them where do they think the bodily fluids go when you are embalmed? Or how about grandma's soot going out the stack of the crematorium and blowing around the neighborhood.
I was going to do the natural burial route, but the only natural burial cemetery in my state went out of business.
Will be very interesting to see if this catches on elsewhere, be great if the processed could be sped up significantly to rival standard cremation
Basically you gonna melt the carcass and leave the bones for crushing… hmmm
Kinda like dipped in sulphuric acid then use a grinder
I guess the 'alkaline water' is caustic soda? (I have no idea)... 😊
I had to put my Baby girl down on March 1st due to cervical cancer and I had her cremated by paws and remember and got her back home Monday march 4th and she got cremated with her blanket and I can't tell which is her and does the blanket turn lumpy when burnt
The blanket turns to just ash mixed with the ashes of her, it should all just be ashes and small pieces of bone.
The average person uses 18L of water per day. At 800L this process uses the equivalent to 44 people per pet that goes through. It's further telling that the water isn't reused.
This isn't more environmentally friendly than cremation. It's unnecessarily wasteful of water. The chemicals being used in this process can be diluted but never removed from the water so there's pollution involved here as well.
What you're essentially doing is turning your pet into soap, then releasing that into the waterways. There's nothing "gentle" about this process.
So true 😢
All waste water in Singapore is treated and reused, we don't release wastewater into waterways so there's no issue of pollution, at least in Singapore.
Both traditional cremation and this process has waste issues, at least water can be contained and treated more easily
@@veryboliao This isn't true.
Singapore does have a robust water recycling program, that is absolutely correct. However not ALL water is utilised in that program, some water is not eligible and discharged out to sea or into the environment.
From the website of PUB, Singapore's national water agency.
"Changi Water Reclamation Plant (Changi WRP) treats used water by effectively removing the solids and nutrients that are present in the used water. After treatment, the treated used water is safe to *be returned to the environment* or channelled to NEWater factory to be further treated into highly purified NEWater."
They tell you directly in the video we watched no less than twice, that the water used in this process is "released back into the ecosystem" (2:24).
The reason it isn't eligible for recycling is the high presence of detergents and lipids dissolved in the water which could not be affordably broken down and removed through a treatment plants processes. There is no choice but to release into the sea, that's how this process works. Trying to put it back into the water system would make an awful lot of people sick.
So yes, there is absolutely pollution of the waterways through this process. Still on the point of pollution, I'm not sure if you understand this but solids removed from treated water still pollute, they're disposed of the same way all biotrash is. Either through landfill (which Singapore has little of) or by incineration. You know, just like cremation...
So called "aquamation" is a feel good marketing pitch for a violent chemical reaction that results in no environmental benefit. It isn't better contained than cremation at all. At least cremation can utilise carbon capture and storage if the government mandated it.
800litres! That’s too much imo
Seems traditional ground burial is the most environmentally friendly way to go.
Beautiful. Is there somewhere we could purchase one of your wood urns like the one in this video? They are beautiful and I would love to purchase one for our dogs ashes. We are in the U.S.A
I love this process. We have 3 fur babies.🙏🏼💜🙌🏻💙
Does anyone know the cost for this service?
That is a beautiful urn sandy was sent back home in
Can this be done for human?
yes, he said that at the end of the clip
Very good
Fly to heaven, sweet girl.
Talking about eco friendly? How about not using any water or polluting the air, and just bury the pet, it will break down fast enough and enrich the soil…
What company that can order this aquamation machine
It is happening for people in quite a few states.
Water is a commodity and it is precious. And it is a scarcity. How is it eco-friendly when the usage of water is precious.
The amount of water used on human cremation is unimaginable especially when the world faced water shortages.
And how many people can afford it. Just like in the case cryogenics.
It's eco friendly because the water is recycled. Did you not watch the video? Fire can't be recycled obviously.
Absolutely agree.
Nowadays for the sake of being called "Innovative" many people are crazy just for the sake of showing off their crazy and costly ideas.
@@jsurfin1 total BS. When you do any recycle process, you need ENERGY. And ENERGY means FIRE, ok.
@@blackrockmountain9906 Ah another keyboard warrior. Not disputing the gist of your comment but you don’t need to attack the messenger. I am just referring to what was said in the video.
@@blackrockmountain9906 its different in the case of water. water cannot be created or destroyed, it just re-enters the water cycle. no energy was used since it just dissolved in alkaline chemicals.
800L of water and eco friendly, right.....
Always sad losing a pet.
Miss my fur buddy Pomeranian .
How much is dog cremation
What is the carbon footprint to generate and treat 800litre of water….
Good point. This people are just crazy for the sake of showing off crazy ideas.
Asking the right questions.
2:12 "...use 90% less energy, 1/10 of the carbon footprint..."
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with carbon, carbon dioxide is the best thing plants can get, but water shouldn’t be wasted, it takes a lot of energy to purify water.
@@shiq-pp2ps carbon footprint is nonsense.
Huh?? Why grind the bones?? Chemicals? And pls lor. The animal is going to cross over after it dies. How the body is handled is not going to stop the soul from crossing over…
cross over where?
In a cremation, the bones are also ground up and returned to the family as a powder. People would freak out if they saw grandma's jay bone or a few ribs if they were sent to the family in a box.
And showing RESPECT for the animal and their human by presenting the body in a dignified way. I guess you never saw an embalming or autopsy, eh? You see the body after it has been prepped and in on display in the coffin, so what's the big deal? I firmly believe animals should be shown the same respect when they die as humans do.
800liters of water in water scarce Singapore and it environmental friendly?
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For my personal view, water cremation is preferred than fire cremation !
Water cremation is cooling for the loved pet !Fire cremation is burning and painful !Of course burial is the best for your love pet 入土为安 ❤
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so in other words its ok to drown but its not to be burnt
Why do so many speak like the animal could feel the difference between fire and water by then? Burn or dissolved makes no difference to it anymore. And honestly, many of these people don't even treat their human relations this well.
Never heard of Aquamation
What if I just wanted the bones in a glass case?
When I die I want to be aqua cremated
So only the bones will only be remain?
Yep , and the liquefied part of is flushed into the waste water pipes sent to a sewage treatment plant and the water is cleaned and then put back into circulation for homes and businesses.
Is this less expensive than cremation or comparable?
Hell No!!!
The word Cremate is reserved for fire only. Why suka suka change the definition.
dictionary never said creamate = fire
Bottom line.......budget friendly?
But cats seriously hate water. Not sure if I'll go with this if my kitty dies.
Any way to get this company contact?
That's not cremation? That's dissolving. Title is misleading. Why would anyone want their pet laying in liquid for 24 hours when you can get the same results in 2 hours by an actual cremation process. Sounds like a scam
Also the fact that you’re pet is then pretty much just getting washed away is a little disturbing imo…
800 liters of water is a lot.
Isn’t alkaline toxic
So sad😢😢😢😢😢😢
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It's not environmental friendly when the process takes up tons of water and it's probably more expensive which conventional way is still the choice to go based on certain belief.
They treated the water and use again.
I’m not crying at 1 am
You know we can call that Boiling and strip all the meat
So sad
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For human one day I personally think it is very nice
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Like bug knows
I WOULD NEVER HAVE CHOSEN THIS FOR MY BOY. GENTLE PET CROSSING NEVER MENTIONED THIS TO ME AND IT WAS A SHOCK. I ALMOST THREW UP WHEN I READ WHAT IT WAS. THIS AD MAKES IT SEEM SO LOVELY. I WOULD RATHER HAVE BURIED MY BOY IN THE YARD HAD I KNOW.
Future human cremation
Soylent Green! Watch the movie!
I don't think I can carry watching this.😢
Then stop watching. Why'd u search it up only to complain bcuz there's no way this came in ur recommended
I wish I knew this I rather my baby be like this i feel so terrible
at first i thought the pet is gonna get jet sprayed into a mush and sun dried till its ashes is left 😅
omg 😂😂😂
Cremated by water, water waste. Furnace cremation is the cleanest
water goes back to soil to become nutrients for plants. furnace goes into atmosphere traps as co2 and accelerates climate change.
Cleanest? Hello, you can smell burning all the way from Indonesia at times, where do you think these burnings end up? In our lungs 🤦🏻♂️
So you enjoy the haze caused by Indonesia?
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That's why I don't have pets coz their life span is short..and you'll be pierced in your heart.
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rich man's problem....
what a water of water...
Imagine human die they gonna do the same, bring back to the house lying down on their bed or sitting on the rocking chair looks like still alive.
Hahaha singgapore pol cant even buried their ppl in future. U all will turn to ash
Hm po shihtzu
Nothing peaceful about this process. I don't want fur baby to be drowned in these weird liquid. The animal already suffered so much to die, no need to go through another round of this weird liquid suffering .
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You want to know what is the most eco friendly? Just leaving corpse on top of soil and let it rot
Hm p0 shih tzu
Hey everyone Just think, the liquefied remains from a green cremation is flushed down the drain into the sewage pipes and it winds up in the water people use in their sink faucet and shower/bathtub so the next time you use water from the sink or take a shower just think about where that came from because it might surprise you on where it came from.... it may have been from a funeral home or crematory and contains liquefied human remains.
It's quite a flawed analysis. Pls understand water filtration process or see how other countries recycle or treat their water for various uses. My family does hope this technology can be used for more purposes as its more environmentally friendly which doesn't not pollute the environment and at the save time efficient.
People are so obsessed with their dead pets it's disturbing 😳 you gonna spend 1400 to get this done yet won't spend that much to put a human to rest yuck
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