What is Water Cremation?

The videos and information on this page are intended to give you an understanding of what the Water Cremation process entails. However, if you are curious, we invite you to come and see our facility with your own eyes. Please visit us for an open house.


Water cremation, also known as alkaline hydrolysis, is a water-based process that accelerates natural decomposition from years to hours.


The process is gentler than flame cremation, and it has a much smaller environmental impact.

As with flame cremation, the family is able to keep their loved one's cremated remains.


Animated Overview of the Water Cremation Process
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What are the differences between Water and Flame Cremation?



This video features our partner Dean Fisher explaining the Water Cremation process while he was the Director of the Donated Body Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.