On a frigid January day, there was unusual activity at a long-dormant red brick building on Sublette Avenue in St. Louis. Jon Hughes, a funeral home operator, watched a team of professional movers in ...
A family-owned funeral home in Missouri purchased the 19th-century building and converted it into an operation for performing alkaline hydrolysis — a water-based alternative to traditional cremation.
In Kansas City's West Bottoms, Jarrod Hammond's "aqua cremation" business - where over hours using a machine known as the Pet-550, he dissolves to the bone the bodily remains of beloved family ...