“Families like the eco-friendly option” and families view it as a gentle practice, Baskerville said. Loved ones who have to make arrangements as needed pick this process 40 percent of the time, rather than traditional cremation. In Illinois, at Reeves and Baskerville Funeral Homes, people who are pre-planning for their final disposition opt for flameless cremation about 80 percent of the time, he said.
The process essentially dissolves the body into a substance similar to ashes.
Flameless Cremationįamilies are opting for flameless cremation or alkaline hydrolysis, a cremation of the body that uses water rather than flames, said Matt Baskerville a funeral director and a spokesperson for the National Funeral Directors Association. Here are some end-of-life options you may not know about. There are more options than traditional caskets and cremations.Īrranging death practices are part of life, while they can be upsetting and expensive, can also be cultural, personal and unique. His crematorium is charging Rs 600 per quintal and most of the wood comes from Uttar Pradesh.Watch Video: Dust to dust: More opting for green burials at White Haven Memorial ParkĬremation is growing in the United States and outpacing the rate of burial according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Padam Shree awardee Jitender Singh Shunty, who runs Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal trust, which runs a crematorium in Delhi, said that wood contractors are finding it difficult to manage the demand and supply due to high Covid deaths. Currently, 70-90 quintals of wood are now being used daily at Manikarnika Ghat. “In Varanasi’s Manikarnika Ghat, the price of pyre wood has increased from Rs 300-350 per quintal to Rs 1,000-1,500 per quintal as suppliers are not able to meet the demands these days,” says Pandit Rajan Mishra of Varanasi Ghat. The average daily funeral figures in pre-Covid times, at Ghats Garhmukteshwar were 10-15 which has now rises to 30-35. Rich families sometimes also prefer sandalwood. Poor families invariably go for a mix of dry and wet wood which cost 250-300 per quintals. Generally, mango, eucalyptus, sakhauri trees are used for pyre wood. But all we are getting are thin logs,” he said, adding that there is a huge shortage of labour for chopping trees due to lockdown in the State. We need thicker wood for the pyre to burn properly. “With an increase in the number of bodies coming in, the requirement for wood has also been increased. The management of Garhmukteshwar Ghat said that they have exhausted all stock of wood. The price of wood has increased five to six times at Garhmukteshwar Ghat at the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh, due to the increased number of deaths these days. Another study by IIT Kanpur says that only 216 kg of wood is needed. The shortage of wood is fuelling black market and price increases.Īccording to a United Nation survey, 400-500 kg of wood is required to cremate a body and 50 to 60 million trees are burned for cremation every year in India. Crematorium operators say that contractors are charging more for wood, and contractors say that suppliers or distributors have increased the prices due to shortage of labourers for chopping the wood during the lockdown and curbs. The price of pyre wood has soared from Rs 400-500 for about 100 kg to Rs 2,000-2,500 in some States.Īt an average, one needs to pay Rs 10,000-12,000 for wood for cremation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Each funeral pyre requires about 4-5 quintals of wood. The demand for wood for cremation has increased manifold due to a surge in the number of deaths across India.
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