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Final spin: Grieving families offered environmentally friendly cremations... with a £300,000 'tumble dryer'

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"The funeral business in the UK could soon be revolutionised by an ingenious new cremation device which looks like a giant tumble dryer.
The Resomator is a green initiative that offers a smokeless alternative to cremation using chemicals to speed up the decomposition process.
Each device costs a staggering £300,000 and sees the odd-shaped unit filled up with a mixture of water and potassium hydroxide which speedily dissolves soft tissues and organs.
An ornate, reusable wooden casket is used to carry the deceased to the Resomator.
The person's body, in a sealed internal silk or wool coffin, is placed on a stainless steel shelf inside the metal cylinder and then the chamber is heated to 180 degrees under extreme pressure breaking down the body in less than three hours.
Any harmless residue left over is then drained away, leaving the skeleton which is ground to dust ready to be laid to rest.
The Glasgow-based inventor Sandy Sullivan is pushing for UK cremation laws to be adapted to allow for the new devices, which have already been sold abroad.
Engineering firm LBBC Technologies of Stanningley, West Yorkshire, who make the Resomator, based the technology on the chemistry of natural decomposition.
They have already sold three of the machines in America and Canada.
Managing director Howard Pickard, 44, said: It's potentially fantastic for us. It's such a new thing in an industry which hasn't had a new form of disposing bodies for a long, long time. How well it is taken up is yet to be seen.
LBBC's Quicklock door, invented by Howard's grandfather Maurice, was the reason inventor Sandy Sullivan from Glasgow-based Resomation Limited chose the firm.
He said: 'There's a very aggressive liquid in the chamber under great pressure. We searched for a good door and after a year of searching, we were directed to LBBC.'
The Resomator cremation system is legal in five U.S. states with units being delivered to Florida, Minnesota and Toronto in Canada."