Benefits
Cryomation Funeral Industry Benefits
- Cryomation offers a greener funeral alternative to traditional burial and cremation
- Cryomation adds potential income streams to the Funeral industry without affecting existing income streams
- Cryomation units initial capital costs are similar to modern Cremator costs with Mercury Filters
- Cryomation units do not use increasingly expensive fossil fuels
- Cryomation units have zero effluent waste streams
- Cryomation units can be sited on any site with light industrial planning use
- Cryomation units are less likely to attract hostility associated with incinerators
- Cryomation units require a smaller footprint than most cremators and could be retro fitted into existing crematoria
- Cryomation units have a 30 year life expectancy, and do not need expensive refits every 5 years
- Cryomation remains require significant less land for burial
- Cryomation remains can be put in a tube then buried in a drilled hole ideal for woodland and heritage burials.
- Cryomation remains decompose completely within 6 to 24 months.
- Cryomation remains could be mixed with soil in a large plant pot to support a legacy plant and complete the circle of life
Cryomation Benefits For Families
- Cryomation provides a greener alternative to traditional burial and cremation
- Cryomation returns 100% of the body to the family compared with 2.5% in cremation
- Cryomation should not cost any more than cremation
- Cryomation appears to fit better with more faiths than cremation including the Catholic Church
- Cryomation does not affect any traditional legacy options
- Cryomation should offer more memorial site options
- Cryomation is suited to increasing trends for alternative funeral arrangements
- Cryomation remains could be mixed with soil in a large plant pot to support a legacy plant and complete the circle of life
Cryomation Environmental Benefits
- Significant CO2 reduction by replacing incineration
- Significant CO2 reduction by reduction of fossil fuels used in cremation
- No Mercury pollution
- Significant reduction in burial land requirements
- Complete reduction of toxic effluents caused by traditional burial
- Allows drilled graves with significant reduction to plant root damage
- Cryomation remains completely decompose but put back valuable lifecycle organic material
- Increased Bio security by eradicating bacteria and viruses.
- Use reusable coffins which cuts down wood requirements and MDF pollution
- Allow landmark burial removing the need for stone or metal monuments
- Require significantly less maintenance than Cremators or grave yards reducing long term carbon footprints