2023-05-17 09:16:18
Two years ago, Santhiya inciner to a deceased pet and it was said that will not repeat the experience.
The Singaporean now says goodbye to her poodle toy in a more way tight to their beliefs: with the “acuamacin“, which replaces fire with water, which makes him feel “more at home” pazand she’s good with him environment“.
“I had a pet that I cremated in the past and I dont like itthe process was very fastI didn’t have time to assimilate it. Also, I try to be Respectful with the environment in my daily life in general,” says Santhiya, 31.
The woman, of Indian ethnicity (one of the three largest in Singapore, after Malays and Chinese), has gone with her mother, Kalavathi, and her grandmother, Leichumy, to say goodbye to “Carpet” (‘Carpet’), a toy poodle passed away at almost 17 years of age, “The Green Mortician” (La Funeraria Verde), the first service of water cremation for pets of the Asian city-state.
While the incineracin of his previous pet fleeting and impersonalgoodbye to “Carpet” is the opposite: it is a ceremonious and long farewellwhich begins with the dog lying on his mattress in a loft decorated with flowers of a warm wake room from the funeral home, surrounded by Santhiya and her relatives.
Singaporeans manage milk in the snout of the deceased poodle -“In Indian culture we believe that this is how the cycle of life ends, leaving with the same food that we received when we arrived in the world“, says Santhiya- and they spend a few hours with her, before the acuamation begins.
technically called alkaline hydrolysisthe method recreates in an accelerated way the decompose of a body with the help of potassium hydroxide and water at elevated temperature (about 150 degrees), introduced with the animal in a metal chamber, so that the only thing left at the end of the processwhich can take between 20 and 24 hours, are the bones.
“To many people he doesn’t like the idea of fire, It is depressing. We have already had as 40 customersand we also organized a small funeral for them,” says Yang Loo, who founded “The Green Mortician” last March, the the only establishment of its kind on the prosperous island.
Afterwards, Loo takes over the process to pulverize the boneswhat it takes one or two of msso that they become ashes similar to those resulting from combustion with fire, which are given to the family.
Loo, ex disyquey 28 years old, se haba converted in project entrepreneur in favor of the environment when a friend told him about the acuamacinpracticed in the USA for pets for about three decades, as well as in other countries, although its use has been spreading little by little, also personas.
One of the most relevant and recent examples was the cremation with water last year of the South African archbishop Desmond Tutua method that Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his opposition to apartheid he had chosen to record his commitment to the environmentalism.
And it is that, by not requiring combustion, experts assure that aquamation reduces greenhouse gas emissions by about 35 percentin addition to requiring about 90 percent less energy than cremation by ignition, which takes between 2 and 4 hours.
Loo confesses”surprised“for the good reception of his business in Singapore, an island of some 5.5 million inhabitants with hardly any undeveloped space, which makes cremations be almost an obligationas there are no square meters to expand the cemeteries.
“People are very receptive“says the young man, who assures that he earns more or less what a traditional pet cremation would cost, between about 400 and 800 dollars, depending on the so much of the animal, having cremated since birds and hamsters to cats and dogs.
The founder of “The Green Mortician”, a space with the air of a spa, decorated with Scandinavian-style furniture and enlivened with a piped in zen musicstates that part of his motivation came from his rejection of traditional funerals: “they are too sad“.
His next goal is to convince the authorities singaporeans for power reuse the water used in the process (about 800 liters, being able to cremate several animals at the same time in different compartments), because now he has to store and processwhich substantially increases the operating cost.
The Lack of machinery necessary for the processwhose price is about $150,000in addition to the added cost of processing the water, become the main obstacles to expand the business for the moment, although his vision of the future is clear.
“The next step is humans. There is no space in Singapore, and cremations are not sustainable“, he assures.
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