CycledLife, manufacturer of alkaline hydrolysis systems, sold Jeff Edwards his system. We are appalled that the ODH denied an Ohioan a basic human right: to honor his dead. To date, only one out of over 500 families that have had the option to choose either an alkali disposition or a cremation stuck with cremation. Under the ORC: 2108.70 (3) and 3705.01, Ohioans have the right to choose how they wish to "go". Unless laws to the contrary are passed, alkaline hydrolysis is legal in OH. Families and funeral directors must comply with existing laws. The ODH, an executive branch of government, has no authority to create laws to protect the status quo in the funeral industry. Please consider showing your support for Jeff Edwards and the family that he is fighting to serve by allowing Edwards Funeral Service, in Columbus, OH, to serve your family. Forcing the decedent's husband to burn his wife and mother of his three children is a shameful act on the part of OH's government regulators.

For this process to catch on, operators of alkaline hydrolysis system and funeral consumers will need to be shown the money.

Matthews’s system: $450,000 all in.

CycledLife’s CycledBurial™ system: $140,000 all in.

Matthews: $550 allocation per case to recoup $450,000 investment at the rate of 150 cases per year. Total cost of the process and allocation for the equipment: $575.00.

CycledBurial™: $170 allocation per case to recoup $140,000 investment at the rate of 150 cases per year. Total cost of the process and allocation for the equipment: $195.00.

Cremation: total cost of the process and allocation for the equipment: $225.00.

Go to www.CycledLife.com to request a financial spreadsheet on alkaline hydrolysis.

CycledBurial(TM) is a hygienic burial. It allows for a burial without the necessity of incurring the cost of a coffin, vault, or cemetery plot. www.CycledLife.com

The idea of linking alkaline hydrolysis with a cremation, not burial, is being promoted by those involved in the cremation industry. You have the world's largest crematory manufacturer calling alkaline hydrolysis some form of cremation. You have CANA contorting the meaning of cremation to include alkaline hydrolysis. The laws that have been passed to change the definition of cremation to include alkaline hydrolysis are likely unenforceable due to conflicts within the defined terms in the bills or statutes. These states may have unwittingly relied on a crematory manufacturer and an association of 1,200 crematory operators to provide language for new laws and regulations for a process that will make crematories obsolete. There needs to be an alkaline hydrolysis association that represents the interest of this new process. It is a disservice to consumers to link a process that solves the problems related to final disposition of human remains with the cremation process that harms the unborn by releasing mercury vapor, consumes a lot of finite fossil fuel, and release numerous other pollutants into the air. Tying a breakthrough technology to a dying one is patently unfair. Alkaline hydrolysis should be viewed for what it truly is - amicus humani generis. www.CycledLife.com

If 90-100% of a body is interred, is it called a burial or a cremation?

My Latin teacher would have taken a ruler to the hand of the person who decided to use a word derived from cremāre to describe a process, alkaline hydrolysis, that provides a family with an abundance of remains, not a few ashes.

You contend the world has been misled into thinking of alkaline hydrolysis as being another form of cremation. It is time to stop this madness. A cremation uses incineration and evaporation to reduce human remains to cremains. The cremains returned to a family are comprised of roughly 75% of the pre-incineration mass of the bones or just 4-5% of the total body. The cremains contain a small amount of residue of others who have been previously cremated. Conversely, some of one's cremains will be given to other families. Alkaline hydrolysis differs considerably from cremation.

With a CycledBurial(TM) and with an unsterile burial, the entire body is available to a family for interment. Unlike cremation, there is no comingling of remains with either an unsterile burial or a CycledBurial. Incineration and evaporation are not processes used by CycledLife's alkaline hydrolysis systems. Continued.

The cost of a CycledBurial(TM) system, at $128,000, is comparable to that of a crematory. Our system uses 90% less energy than a crematory. All other aspects of the operations are comparable, with the exception of not needing to incur the expense to remove pacemakers when using our systems. Our systems do not incur the costs required to monitor emissions, as is the case with crematories. Our system does not require re-bricking. Given the cost savings compared to cremation, a CycledBurial(TM) should cost the same or less than a cremation.

We prefer to compare our systems to the burial option, not cremation. A CycledBurial is a hygienic burial. It allows for a burial of 100% of one’s remains without the necessity of incurring the cost of a coffin, vault, or cemetery plot. Our systems allow for a pathogen-free burial. The public will save a considerable amount of money on a CycledBurial compared to an unsterile burial. This cost saving over a burial in a cemetery, several thousand dollars, will drive a lot of consumer demand. The reduction in emissions, fuel consumption, and the public health benefits make a CycledBurial the best final disposition option. www.CycledLife.com

DirectAds don't perform at all for me. Don't spend so much money.

CycledBurial and Green Burial
A CycledBurial is the perfect complement to a green burial. A CycledBurial would solve the problems with green burials. Green burials require the movement of lots of dirt to bury a body. As many green burials are designed to create a land conservation, the upheaval of the soil is undesirable. Further, it limits the placement of bodies both in terms of where a grave can be physically dug and as to how many bodies can be buried on a parcel of land. CycledBurial reduces the footprint of the gravesite. It eliminates the problem with wildlife exhuming the deceased. Those who choose embalming could still have a green burial, as a CycledBurial(TM) would render the formaldehyde harmless. This would allow for this option to have a wider consumer appeal. A CycledBurial would eliminate any concerns about public health risks. Since, CycledBurial kills 100% of all bacteria, viruses and prions leading to 100% pathogen-free remains.

As the newest entrant into this market, CycledLife expects to take the lion share of this emerging market. Next week, at the MFDA convention, it is introducing low-temperature water & alkali disposition systems. The key to CycledLife's success is its low cost for a system: $128,000. This is a fraction of the cost of the high-pressure systems. The footprint of the system is less than 50 SF. It will be safer and less costly to maintain than high-pressure systems.

For consumers, the lower capital cost for a water & alkali system, (Your Funeral Guy, Let's call this process what it is - no need for misnomers involving the word cremation, as it does not involve incineration) will mean water & alkali dispositions will be less costly than cremation. This is great news for the living.