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Aquamation

Water-based cremation using alkaline hydrolysis

402 providers · $2k–$3.5k typical cost · 47 states
How It Works

The body is placed in a stainless steel vessel filled with a solution of 95% warm water and 5% alkali (potassium hydroxide). Over 6–20 hours, the combination of water flow, temperature, and alkalinity gently breaks down organic material. What remains are bone fragments, which are processed into a fine white powder and returned to the family — similar to cremated remains but without flame.

Why Choose Aquamation?

Aquamation uses approximately 90% less energy than flame cremation and produces zero direct carbon emissions. No mercury from dental fillings is released into the atmosphere, and the sterile effluent water can be safely returned to the water system. It is considered one of the most environmentally responsible disposition options available.

Things to Consider

The process requires specialized equipment and is not yet legal in every state. The remains are typically 20–30% more in volume than flame cremation. Families receive the remains in a standard urn, and many providers offer the same memorial and scattering options as traditional cremation.

All Aquamation Providers

Alabama 7

Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Saraland — Foxfield Preserve Wilmot — Garden of Oaks at Spring Hill Mobile — Miller Funeral Home Oxford $1.8k Springhill Memorial Gardens Mobile — Sunset Memorial Park Midland City — Tallapoosa County Memorial Gardens 36850 —

Arizona 5

Bisbee Memorial Gardens Bisbee — Heritage Coolidge Funeral Home Coolidge — Heritage Memory Mortuary Prescott — Marana Mortuary Cemetery 85653 — Sunwest Funeral Home (Heritage Memory) El Mirage —

Arkansas 3

Kirby & Family Funeral and Cremation Services – Bull Shoals Bull Shoals — Kirby & Family Funeral and Cremation Services – Mountain Home Mountain Home — Kirby's Tucker Memorial Cemetery & Mausoleum Gassville —

California 28

Blue Lake Cemetary Blue Lake — Boyko & Reardon Telegraph Road Mortuary & Cremation Ventura — Bravo Family Mortuary San Diego — Cayetano Natural Burial Ground at Tulocay Napa — Creston Cemetery 5762 Little Farm Rd — Davis Cemetery and Arboretum Davis — Eggen and Lance Santa Rosa — Eternal Home Cemetery San Francisco — Eternal Meadow at Woodlawn Cemetery — Fernwood Cemetery and Funeral Home Mill Valley — Forever Fernwood Cemetery Mill Valley — Gan EdenHillside Memorial Park Los Angeles — Hollywood Forever Hollywood — Joseph P. Reardon Funeral Home & Cremation Service Ventura — Joshua Tree Memorial Park 92252 — Morgan Oaks Eternal Preserve Lincoln — Mount Sinai Memorial Park Hollywood Hills Los Angeles — Mount Sinai Memorial Park Simi Valley Simi Valley — Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries – Simi Valley Simi Valley — Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries – Hollywood Hills Simi Valley — Natural Grace Los Angeles — Pleasant Hills Memorial Park Sebastopol — Purissima Cemetery Half Moon Bay — Rose Hills Memorial Park Whittier — Sebastopol Memorial Lawn Cemetery Sebastopol — Sunset Lawn Chapel of the Chimes Sacramento — Westwood Hills Memorial Park-The Meadow Placerville — White Rose Aqua Cremation Escondido $3.9k

Colorado 9

Colorado Burial Preserve Florence — Crestone Cemetery Crestone — Goes Funeral Care & Crematory; Inc Fort Collins — Hermosa Cemetery Durango — Mountain Wilderness Memorial Woodland Park — Roselawn Cemetery (City of Fort Collins Parks Dept) Fort Collins — Roselawn Cemetry Fort Collins — Seven Stones Cemetery Littleton — The Natural Funeral Lafayette $2.2k–$5.9k

Connecticut 7

Abraham L. Green & Son Funeral Home Fairfield — Carmon Community Funeral Home Windsor — Grove Cemetery Naugatuck — Hillside Cemetery Wilton — Robinson, Wright & Weymer Funeral Home Centerbrook — Shaughnessey-Banks Funeral Home Fairfield — Wooster Cemetery Danbury —

Delaware 1

Gracelawn Memorial Park (Dignity) New Castle —

Florida 14

Brooksville Cemetery Brooksville — City of Brooksville Cemetery Brooksville — Eternal rest Memories Park Dunedin — Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve Glendale — Glendale Memorial Park Nature Reserve DeFuniak Springs — Haisley Hobbs Funeral Home Fort Pierce — Heartwood Preserve New Port Richey — Heath Funeral Chapel Lakeland — Hope Eternal Gardens Punta Gorda — Landmark Funeral Home Hollywood — Milam Funeral and Cremation Services Gainesville — Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery Gainesville — Riverview Memorial Gardens Cocoa — South Florida Jewish Cemetery Lake Worth —

Georgia 8

Eco-Eternity Forest-Glisson Camp and Retreat C Dahlonega — Georgia Funeral Care Acworth — Honey Creek Woodlands Conyers — Miller Funeral Home Tallapoosa $1.8k Milton Fields Milton — Potts Mountain Burial Ground Marble Hill — SouthCare Cremation & Funeral Society Marietta — Whispering Hills Natural Green Cemetery & Preserve LaGrange —

GU 1

Los Parques Villa Nueva —

Hawaii 1

Valley Isle Memorial Park Cemetery Wailuku —

Idaho 2

English Funeral Chapel Coeur d'Alene $2.9k Mountain View Green Cemetery Leadore —

Illinois 10

AquaGreen Dispositions Chicago $1.8k Caring Cremations Chicago $1.4k Casper Creek Natural Cemetery Galena — Pleasant Grove Memorial Park Murphysboro — Ringa Funeral Home Lake Villa — Roselawn Memorial Park — Simplicity Funeral & Cremation Care Inc Darien — St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Cemetery Palatine — The Meadow at Sunset Memorial park Danville — Windridge Memorial Park & Nature Sanctuary Cary —

Indiana 10

ARN Funeral & Cremation Services Zionsville — Kessler Woods at Washington Park North Cemetery — Oak Hill Cemetery Crawfordsville — Saint Joseph Cemetery South Bend — Sanders Funeral Care Crawfordsville — Springvale Cemetery- The Preserve Lafayette — The Freeman Green Indianapolis — Tippecanoe Memory Gardens West Lafayette — Weathers Funeral Home Inc Salem — White Oak Cemetery Bloomington —

Iowa 1

Hoffmann Schneider & Kitchen Funeral Home and Crematory Dubuque —

Kansas 6

Ascension Cemtery of Bel Aire Bel Aire — Heart Land Prairie Cemetery New Cambria — Lincoln City Cemetery Lincoln City — Mount Muncie Cemetery Lansing — Oak Hill Cemetery Lawrence — Topeka Cemetery Topeka —

Kentucky 1

Mattingly Funeral Home Loretto, KY —

Louisiana 2

Garden of Memories Cemetery Metairie — Rose-neath Cemetery Bossier City —

Maine 5

Baldwin Hill Conservation Cemetery Winthrop — Burr Cemetery Freeport — Cedar Brook Burial Ground Limington — David E. Desmond & Son Funeral Home Bath — Rainbow’s End Orrington —

Maryland 13

Bestgate Memorial Park Annapolis — Eclipse Funerals Pikesville — Eline Funeral Home Reisterstown — Garden of Remembrance Gan Zikaron Memorial Park Clarksburg — Haight Funeral Home & Chapel Sykesville — Joseph Brown Funeral Home Baltimore $5k Reflection Park Silver Spring — Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care Inc. Rockville — Serenity Ridge Natural Cemetery Windsor Mill — Sol Levinson (Annapolis) Annapolis — Sol Levinson (Columbia) Columbia — Sol Levinson (Pikesville) Pikesville — Thibadeau Mortuary Service, p.a. Gaithersburg —

Massachusetts 22

Abel’s Hill Cemetery Chilmark — Ahearn Funeral Home Northampton — Ascher Zimmerman Funeral Home Springfield — Hillcrest Park Springfield — Keefe Funeral Home Arlington — Keohane Funeral Home Quincy — Middle Farms Cemetery USA — Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge — Oak Grove Cemetery of Springfield, Inc. Springfield — South Wellfleet Cemetery USA — Temple Israel Greenfield — Town of Chesterfield USA — Town of Hawley USA — Town of Heath Center USA — Town of Heath North USA — Town of Heath South USA — Town of Marion USA — Town of Warwick — Town of Wenham USA — Town of Worthington USA — West Cemetery Shutesbury — West Leyden Cemetery Leyden —

Michigan 19

Eagle Harbor Cemetery Mohawk — Forest Lawn Cemetery 48234 — Hebrew Memorial Gardens 48237 — Heritage Life Story Funeral Homes Grand Rapids — Howe-Peterson Funeral Home – Dearborn Chapel Dearborn — Marble Park Cemetery Milan — Martenson Family Funeral Home (Trenton Chapel) Trenton — Marysville Funeral Home Marysville — Mount Carmel Cemetery Wyandotte — Mount Elliott Cemetery Detroit — Pederson Funeral Home Rockford — Peninsula Township Cemetry 49686 — Pollock-Randall Funeral Home Port Huron — Pray Funeral Home Charlotte — Ridgeview Memorial Gardens Grandville — Sullivan and Son Funeral Directors – Utica Utica — Swartz Funeral Home Flint — The Preserve at All Saints Cemetery (Mt. Elliott) Waterford — Watkins Brothers Funeral Homes Owosso —

Minnesota 8

Dingmann Funeral Care Annandale — Inspired Journeys LLC Forest Lake — Interra Green Burial - Twin Cities St Paul — Interra Green Burial - White Bear Lake White Bear Lake — Loving Earth Memorial Gardens Barnum — Mound Cemetery of Brooklyn Center MN Brooklyn Center — Prairie Oaks Memorial Eco Gardens Inver Grove Heights — The Catholic Cemeteries (Gate of Heaven Preserve at Resurrection Cemetery) Mendota Heights —

Missouri 10

Baue Funeral Homes – Cave Springs St. Charles — Baue Funeral Homes – O'Fallon O'Fallon — Baue Funeral Homes – St. Charles St. Charles — Bellefontaine Cemetery St. Louis — Gates to Heaven Cemeteries Seligman — Green Acres Cemetery USA — Hughes Funeral Alternatives St. Louis $1.4k Longview Cemetery Kansas City — Pushing Up Daisies Inc Columbia — Zion Cemetery Association St. Louis —

Montana 3

City of Billings, Mountview Cemetery Billings — Dahl Funeral Chapel & Crematory Billings — Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service and Crematory Bozeman —

Nevada 1

Hebrew Cemetery Reno Reno —

New Hampshire 6

Chocorua Cemetery Tamworth — Life Forest — Monadnock Quaker Friends NB Ground Jaffrey — Phaneuf Funeral Homes & Crematoria (Hanover St) Manchester — Richmond Cemetery USA — Tamworth Town Cemetery Tamworth —

New Jersey 16

Bradley; Haeberle & Barth Union — Cremstar Jersey City $4.0k Fertig Funeral Home; LLC Mullica Hill — Historic Goshen Cemetery Rte 47 — John Pfleger Funeral Home Middletown — Knoll-DeVoe Funeral Home & Cremation Service Washington — Martin Funeral Home Clinton — Maryrest Catholic Cemetery Mahwah — Prout Funeral Home Verona — Scanlan's: Where Life is Celebrated Pompton Plains — St. Mary's Cemetery Saddle Brook — Steelmantown Cemetery Woodbine — Steelmantown Green Burial Preserve Woodbine — The Rosemont Cemetery - Rosemont Memorial Garden Rosemont — Union Cemetery at Mays Landing Mays Landing — Wright & Ford Family Funeral Home and Cremation Services Flemington —

New Mexico 4

Commonweal Conservancy Santa Fe — French Funerals-Cremations Albuquerque — La Puerta Natural Burial Ground Belen — Natural Burial New Mexico Belen —

New York 27

Ascension Garden Cemetery Henrietta — Ascension Garden St. Francis Meadow Henrietta — Ballard-Durand Funeral and Cremation Services White Plains — Ballard-Durand of Elmsford Elmsford — Coffey Funeral Home Tarrytown — Doser Funeral Home and Cremation Fairport — Fitting Tribute Funeral Services Brooklyn — Forest Hill Cemetery (Forest Lawn Cemetery Group) Attica — Forest North Funeral Chapel Staten Island — Fultonville Natural Burial Ground Fultonville — Greensprings Natural Cemetery Newfield — Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Rochester — International Funeral Service of New York Brooklyn — Lakeside Cemetery (Forest Lawn Cemetery Group) Hamburg — Lakeside Memorial Funeral Home Hamburg — Lansing Funeral Home Lansing — Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery Niskayuna — Mount Hope Cemetery Rochester — New York Quaker Meeting Cemetery (NYQM) Brooklyn — Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, Inc. New York — Rhinebeck Cemetery Rhinebeck — Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Sleepy Hollow — St. Peter’s Cemetery – Peaceful Meadows Saratoga Springs — Town of Rhinebeck Cemetery Rhinebeck — Vale Cemetery (The Dell) Schenectady — Wattengel Funeral Home Inc North Tonawanda — White Haven Memorial Park Rochester —

North Carolina 19

Anders-Rice Funeral Home Asheville — Bluestem Conservation Cemetery Cedar Grove — Carolina Memorial Sanctuary Mills River — City of Oaks Cremation; LLC Raleigh — Clay-Barnette Kings Mountain $2.0k Eco-Eternity Forest-Chestnut Ridge Efland — Endswell Funeral Home Hillsborough $3.5k Forest Lawn Funeral Home Memorial Park Hendersonville — Forest Lawn Memorial Park Candler — Green Hills Cemetery Asheville — Groce Funeral Home & Cremation Service Asheville — Hall-Wynne Funeral Service Durham — Hall-Wynne/Gentry Newell & Vaughan Funeral Homes Durham — Lambert Funeral Home and Cremation Services Mocksville — Lowe Funeral Home & Crematory Burlington — Oakwood Cemetery-Mordecai’s Meadow Raleigh — Pine Forest Memorial Gardens Wake Forest — Pines Funerals – Fry & Prickett Funeral Home Carthage — Renaissance Funeral Home and Crematory Raleigh —

Ohio 21

Berry-McGreevey-Martens Funeral Homes & Cremation Service Westlake — Billow Fairlawn Chapel Akron — Bissler & Sons Funeral Home and Crematory Kent — Brown Dawson Flick Funeral Home Hamilton — Busch (Fairview Park) Funeral Home Fairview Park — Busch (Parma) Funeral Home Parma — Canton Cemetery Association North Lawn Cemetery Canton — Conroy Funeral Home Springfield — Dowds-Snyder Funeral Home Mt. Vernon — Epstein Memorial Chapel Columbus — Foxfield Preserve Wilmot — Glen Forest Cemetery Yellow Springs — Glen Forest Natural Burial Cemetery (Miami Township) Yellow Springs — Green Haven Cemetery — Heritage Acres Memorial Sanctuary Cincinnati — Jackson Lytle & Lewis Funeral Home Yellow Springs — Kokosing Nature Preserve Gambier — Loveland Cemetery (Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati) Loveland — Preble Memory Gardens Cemetery West Alexandria — Routsong Funeral Home (Centerville) Centerville — Union Grove Cemetery Cemetery Road —

Oklahoma 5

Dillon Family Services Sand Springs — Dust to Dust Green Burial Cemetery — Green Haven Cemetery Stillwater — Ingram; Smith & Turner Mortuary Yukon — Woodland Memorial Park Sand Springs —

Oregon 12

Estacada Cemetery District — Great River Natural Burial Mosier — Historic Goshen Cemetery Portland — Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home Ashland — Mount Calvery Catholic Cemetery Portland — Oak Hll Cemetery 97402 — River View Cemetery Funeral Home Portland — River View Cemetery and Funeral Home Portland — Riverview Cemetery Portland — Rose City Funeral Home Portland — The Forest Conservation Burial Ground Ashland — Valley Memorial Park Hillsboro —

Pennsylvania 32

Bohn-Matich Funeral Home Ambridge — Brubaker Funeral Home Coplay — Charles F. Snyder Funeral Home Lancaster — D'Alessandro Funeral Home & Crematory Ltd. Pittsburgh — Darroch Cremation and Funeral Tributes Aliquippa — Edward J. Kuhn Funeral Home, Inc. West Reading — Eplers Church Cemetery Leesport — Gethsemane Cemetery - St. Kateri Tekakwitha Natural Burial Laureldale — Green Meadow at Fountain Hill Fountain Hill — Grieco Funeral Home & Crematory Kennett Square — Hahn Funeral and Cremation Services Millvale — Hartman-Graziano Funeral Home, Inc. Latrobe — Hetrick Bitner Funeral Home Harrisburg — Highland Meadows at Oakwood Sharon — Lampeter Green Burial Ground Bird in Hand — Lampeter Green Burial Grounds Bird in Hand — Laughlin Cremation and Funeral Tributes – Castle Shannon Castle Shannon — Laughlin Cremation and Funeral Tributes – Lebanon Mt. Lebanon — Laurel Hill East (Valley View Green) Philadelphia — Lopatich-Brinker Funeral Home Latrobe — Moravian High Acres Cemetery Canadensis — Naugle Funeral & Cremation Service Quakertown — Neil W. Regan Funeral Home Inc. Scranton — Paul Henney Cremation and Funeral Tributes Bethel Park — Paxtang Cemetery Harrisburg — Penn Forest Natural Burial Park Verona — Rigby Harting & Hagan Funeral Home Media — Rose Funeral Home and Cremation Services Pittsburgh — Simple Funerals Inc. Manheim — The Groffs Family Funeral & Cremation Services Inc. Lancaster — Wellsboro Cemetery Wellsboro — Wildwood Cemetery Williamsport —

Rhode Island 2

Olson & Parent Funeral Home Providence — Prudence Memorial Park Prudence Island —

South Carolina 6

Dust to Dust Green Burial Cemetery — Greenhaven Preserve Eastover — Kings Mountain Preserve Blacksburg — Ramsey Creek Preserve Westminster — Sacred Grove Preserve Saint Stephen — Woodland Memorial Park —

South Dakota 1

Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Sioux Falls —

Tennessee 5

Elmwood Cemetery Memphis — Larkspur Conservation Burial Ground Nashville — Larkspur Conservation at Taylor Hollow — Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home Nashville — Spann Funeral Home & Cremation Services Dickson —

Texas 13

Blazing Star Sanctuary (Katy Prairie Preserve) Brookshire — Campo de Estrellas Conservation Cemetery Flatonia — Countryside Memorial Park La Vernia — Cremation.green Austin $2.6k Eloise Woods Community Natural Burial Park — Ethician Family Cemetery Huntsville — Green Cremation Texas Austin — Nature's Burial Brookshire — Our Lady of the Rosary Georgetown — Schmidt Funeral Home Katy — The Gabriels Funeral Chapel and Crematory Georgetown — Unbroken Circle Community Cemetery — Waldman Funeral Care, LLC Houston —

Utah 3

Aultorest Memorial Park Ogden — Lakeview memorial Cemetery Bountiful — Starks Funeral Parlor Salt Lake City —

Vermont 4

Heald Funeral Home Saint Albans — Heartwood Preserve Conservation Cemetery — Leaf and Water Cremation Bennington $3k+ Vermont Forest Cemetery Roxbury —

Virginia 8

Blue Ridge Green Burial Salem — Carewell Cremations Fairfax — Cool Spring Natural Cemetery (Holy Cross Abbey) Berryville — Duck Run Natural Cemetery Harrisonburg — Everly-Wheatley Funeral Home Alexandria — Forest Rest Natural Cemetery Boones Mill — Kyger Funeral Homes Inc HARRISONBURG — Panorama Natural Burial Earlysville —

Washington 17

Barton Family Funeral Service Edmonds $1.5k Cedar Lawns Memorial Park & Funeral Home Redmond — City of Sumner Cemetery Puyallup — Elemental Cremation & Burial Seattle $1.4k Forest Grove Green Burial (Riverside Memorial Park) Spokane — Funeral and Cremation Care Bellevue $1.5k Heritage Funeral & Cremation Spokane $2.6k Herland Forest — Hillcrest Cemetery Bainbridge Island — Historic Congressional Cemetery Washington — Mole Greenacres Memorial Park Ferndale — Solie Funeral Home and Crematory Everett — The Co-op Funeral Home of People's Memorial Seattle — The Meadow Natural Burial Ground at Greenacres Memorial Park Ferndale — Weeks Dryer Mortuary Tacoma $3.0k White Eagle Memorial Preserve Goldendale — Woodlawn Cemetery Snohomish —

Washington DC 1

Historic Congressional Cemetery Washington DC —

West Virginia 3

New River Gorge Funeral Service Fayetteville — Smith Funeral Home & Cremation Care Morgantown — The Good Earth Burial Ground —

Wisconsin 8

Circle Cemetery — Forest Home Cemetery Milwaukee — Greenwood Cemetery – Prairie Green Milwaukee — Greenwood Jewish Cemetery Milwaukee — Natural Path Sanctuary Verona — Popp Funeral and Cremation Services Viroqua — Prairie Home Cemetery Waukesha — Sòlas Natural Burial Preserve Middleton —