Erik van Zoest (left) with son Dennis at the resomation machine. “You return to the water after your death.”
No burial or cremation, but resomation, a new funeral method, will probably be allowed from this year.
The law still needs to be changed, but funeral directors Erik and Dennis van Zoest have already purchased a machine in which the body of the deceased decomposes under pressure.
“The idea of a rebirth. You come from amniotic fluid, consist largely of water and return to the water after your death. That sounds a lot friendlier than cremation or burial.”
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