The biggest thing to happen to the death industry in the last 100 yearsThe Spinoff Daily, Friday July 26
Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: Rating the experience of death and dying in Aotearoa, the local science that just made a huge cameo in The Kardashians and why you need to start watching The Traitors NZ if you aren’t already. But first: Alex Casey meets the people trying to bring water cremation to Aotearoa.
“Through a set of mirrored doors down the industrial end of Christchurch’s St Asaph Street, death is getting a new lease on life. Inside Bell, Lamb and Trotter, Christchurch’s oldest funeral home first established in 1872, there’s an enormous empty room nestled behind the cosy, softly lit chapel. At first glance, there’s not much to it – a charcoal grey shag rug, a bouquet of orange and white flowers, and the corner desk of an opportunist seizing their own temporary office. What’s more interesting about the room is not what’s in it, but what is not. One day it will be the site of New Zealand’s first resomator, an SUV-sized stainless steel machine that allows for water cremation – a method that has been found to be 90% less harmful to the environment than flame cremation.”
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