What the Cool Corpses Are Doing...In Theory

Hello Deathlings! 

May I present to you our video on freeze-drying a corpse AKA promession. 

After being asked about this process approximately 937 times, we thought it was time for us to devote a video to the concept of promession. 

Concept of promession. 

I really don't want to be a buzzkill and as I say in the video I'm all for ALL the green burial advances, but let's be clear: promession AKA freeze-drying your corpse so you can shake it apart into organic particles for burial, is still very much a CONCEPT. 

I would LOVE it if someone sees this video and is like, "Ummmmm, Caitlin? Get with the times, we've legalized promession in my state/province/pod and we're doing it and it WORKS!" 

But until I get that email, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news deathlings: promession isn't an option yet. 

No shade on Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak – can you imagine what it took to even begin to construct this process? I look forward to a future where people laugh at that quaint old YouTube mortician who just didn't get it. 

I hope this answers some questions for you deathlings. If nothing else, I'm even more hopeful that this isn't the last we hear of promession. 

We have another video coming at you before the end of the month plus more content in August along with a very exciting announcement...

From an appropriate social distance, 

Caitlin 

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