promession

Jun. 30th, 2017 05:08 pm
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I came across this word browsing the index at Michael Quinion's World Wide Words:

[Promession] is an ecological alternative to cremation or burial. The corpse is frozen in liquid nitrogen and then shattered into powder by ultrasonic vibration before being buried in a biodegradeable box in a shallow grave...

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