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Ruling blocks Ohio facility from liquefying bodies

Bloomberg Business Week
The Associated Press
April 2, 2012

COLUMBUS OH

An Ohio funeral home that was blocked from dissolving bodies using lye and heat has joined a funeral directors’ group in pushing for the state to legalize the process.

Under a bill in the Ohio House, the state would recognize alkaline hydrolysis as a separate legal, regulated form of disposition, rather than lumping it in with traditional cremation, as some states have done.

Read the full article at Bloomberg Business Week

Thanks to the HVCC Mortuary Science Alumni & Student Assoc for alerting us to this article.

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