It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s crematory in West Baltimore uses hot water, chemicals and a bit of agitation to dissolve ...

Joseph H Brown III, owner Joseph H Brown Jr. Funeral Home, offers alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation at their OnSite Cremation LLC facility. He says this is a greener, though more costly, option ...

A Baltimore funeral home is the first in Maryland to offer a “green” option to cremation. At the Joseph Brown Funeral Home in west Baltimore, there’s now an option for water cremation. Funeral ...

Alkaline hydrolysis, or "water cremation," is an environmentally friendlier alternative to traditional burial and flame cremation. The process uses water, alkaline chemicals, heat and pressure to ...

Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...