{"id":19789,"date":"2021-05-21T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19789"},"modified":"2021-05-21T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:16:13","slug":"wisconsin-senate-approves-bill-to-dissolve-dead-bodies-dump-them-in-sewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wisconsin-senate-approves-bill-to-dissolve-dead-bodies-dump-them-in-sewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Senate approves bill to dissolve dead bodies, dump them in sewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lifesite News – May 13, 2021<\/p>\n

MADISON, Wisconsin, May 13, 2021 (LifeSiteNews)<\/a> \u2013 Wisconsin senators approved a bill earlier this week allowing dead bodies to be dissolved in a chemical bath and disposed like sewage.<\/p>\n

The bill, Senate Bill 228<\/a>, authorizes a practice called alkaline hydrolysis, or \u201cwater cremation,\u201d which liquifies the human body using a mixture of water, heat, and chemical agents, leaving only bones behind. The liquid is then dumped into the sewage system or boiled off, and bones can be crushed and deposited in an urn.<\/p>\n

The Republican-led Senate passed the legislation without debate on Tuesday over the objection of the Catholic bishops of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

\u201cCatholic teaching is centered on the life and dignity of the human person because each person is created in the image and likeness of God,\u201d Kim Vercauteren, executive director of the Wisconsin Catholic Conference, wrote<\/a> to the senate health committee. \u201cThe heart, mind, flesh, and bones of a human person are all elements of a unique creation, down to the DNA, which must be honored even after death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur concern is that with alkaline hydrolysis, remains are washed into a wastewater system as though the body created by God never existed,\u201d Vercauteren added. \u201cWastewater does not honor the sacredness of the body, nor does it allow the grieving to honor the dead after disposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, who sponsored SB 228, argued for the measure as a means to promote \u201cconsumer choice.\u201d At a hearing for the bill, he said<\/a> that \u201cWisconsin funeral directors are receiving more and more requests for flameless or water cremation.\u201d \u201cI believe in allowing consumers choices. And if a consumer chooses flameless cremation, I would like to empower Wisconsin funeral directors the means to fulfill that choice,\u201d Testin said.<\/p>\n

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