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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Philadelphia, PA) Two Pennsylvania lawmakers have recently introduced a bill to legalize water cremation in the state. Water cremation, known as aquamation or alkaline hydrolysis, is a cremation process that is an environmentally friendly alternative process for cremation that uses water, heat and alkali to break a body down into its basic components. Democratic Pennsylvania State Representative Chris Rabb of Philadelphia co-sponsored a bill authorizing the use of water cremations of Pennsylvania, which passed in the Pennsylvania state House with bipartisan support. Republican Pennsylvania Representative Abby Major of Armstrong and Westmoreland counties is the primary co-sponsor for Rabb’s bill. Rabb is also a funeral director. According to the Cremation Association of North America, Pennsylvania could be the 26th state to legalize the procedure of aquamation.