Episode 17: The Aquamation Advocate

Adriaan Bester wants to be aquamated when he dies. What does he mean? As the person who helped bring this technology to South Africa, he happens to have an insiders view of everything it entails.

Also called water resumation or alkaline hydrolysis, aquamation offers us a choice - at last! - an alternative to burial or cremation that is gentler and has good green credentials, comparatively speaking.

But does aquamation turn you into a soup? And what happens to the waste? In fact, where do you go?

Here’s the place where you start wrapping your head around something that has been a long time coming, for where your head goes, your body will soon follow.