Showing posts with label Promessa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Promessa. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Go Green?

Surfing the web you sometimes come across innovative ideas. All I could think when I read this was what a pity it was that the other company had already taken the best name for it, "Go Green".
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Promession is an ecologically-conscious method for disposing of human remains by freeze drying. It was invented and patented in 1999 by the Swedish biologist Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak.

The method is based on three steps:

1. Reducing the body of the deceased to a fine powder, thereby allowing subsequent decomposition to be aerobic. This is achieved by submerging the body in liquid nitrogen, making the remains so brittle that they shatter into a powder as the result of slight vibrations. The powder is then dried, reducing the deceased remains to around 30% of their original body weight.

2. Removing and recycling metals within the powdered remains.

3. Shallow-burying the powder in a biodegradable casket.

Go to The Promessa Organics burial website (click the logo to go there for further info):