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The hosts of 'The Week Unwrapped' delve into the unsettling but fascinating topic of alkaline hydrolysis, also known as water cremation. Discover the method humorously dubbed 'boil-in-the-bag' and why it's gaining attention.
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00:00for some reason being set on fire is nicer than being drowned i'm into it you'll be surprised to
00:04hear i think it's um if you think about how it's actually it goes about the old boil in the
00:09bag
00:09so the body is wrapped in a like the whole conversation makes me feel completely creeped
00:13out i just i do that thing where i do imagine myself as the body and it happening to me
00:17which
00:17is absurd because i'd be dead but you know i mean i just think yeah maybe i've been conditioned to
00:21it but maybe i think for some reason being set on fire is nicer than being drowned i just can't
00:26imagine being drowned when i was doing this um research did you know who the famous person was
00:33who was boiled in a bag desmond tutu desmond tutu wow we could yeah tutu was not anywhere on my
00:41imagine imagine not just a a degree um it was yeah so he was the south african anti-apartheid
00:49campaigner archbishop desmond tutu of course uh he chose alkaline hydrolysis which is the effect
00:53is the official term for it um and his decision prompted millions of people around the world
00:58according to this article to encounter the concept uh for the first time
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