If you’ve ever cremated a loved one, you’re aware that the grieving stage is still in full effect. It’s a tragic time that calls for healing, and only time can mend those wounds. So, the environmental impact of flame cremation is likely the last thing on your mind.
Still, knowing that over 500 pounds of carbon dioxide are blasted into the atmosphere with each flame cremation is enough to hook the ears of the most dedicated litterers. But Be a Tree Cremation has an alternative for avid environmentalists: water cremation, which uses 90% less energy and produces 10x less carbon dioxide emissions.
Since they’ve started offering water cremation, Be a Tree has stopped nearly 98,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from entering our atmosphere. The process, otherwise known as alkaline hydrolysis or aquamation, gently combines water and alkali to mimic natural decomposition. The result is the same as any flame cremation: ashes, or fine bone material, to scatter or treasure.
Although water cremation is their bread and butter, Be a Tree offers a handful of complementary services to honor your late loved one. Whether you want to scatter their remains in a sacred location, store them in a beautiful keepsake, or bury them, Be a Tree has an urn for it. But their signature urn, The Living Urn™, goes a different direction by “growing a living memory.” Ashes are stored in a cylindrical wooden container with a tree sapling, after which the container is placed in a location of your choosing and allowed to flourish. And if you don’t have a location in mind, Be a Tree’s experts can lend a hand.
For an environmentally-friendly cremation and memorial that’ll make the most of your loved one’s passing, visit beatreecremation.com or call their 24/7 hotline at (720) 782-2782.
