Wendy and Mark Tasker in Capella, Queensland, where they are preparing to open an alkaline hydrolysis facility — also known as water cremation — inside an old timber church.

Gone to a wetter place: the Queenslanders disrupting the death industry with water cremations

In this article, University of Melbourne DeathTech research team’s Dr Hannah Gould argues the death care sector is in dire need of independent research in new technologies, such as alkaline hydrolysis and human composting – or terramation – marketed as ‘green’ alternatives to burial and cremation.