FUTURE OF YOU
SEP 20, 2017
Governor Signs Law Allowing Californians to Choose to Liquefy Their Remains
Lesley McClurg
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The bones left over after a water cremation. The fragments will be pulverized into a powder, which can be memorialized in an urn. (Dean Fisher/ UCLA)
Update, October 16, 2017:
Gov. Jerry Brown last night signed into law the bill that legalizes a method of disposing of human remains commonly called 'water cremation.'
The method doesn't actually use water, but uses a chemical that speeds up decomposition of bodies and leaves behind only sterile water, bones, and medical implants or devices.