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Save the date - 23 August 2025 YOU'RE INVITED TO AN OPEN DAY
20 August 2025
When: 23 August 2025, 1 - 4pm
Where: 418 Saint Asaph Street
You're invited to tour the facility and see New Zealand's first water cremator.
Major change to funeral industry.
15 June 2025 - 10 mins
The first major change in decades has come to the funeral industry's end-of-life offerings. New Zealanders now have an alternative to the traditional burial or flame cremation options when they die.
Water cremation is now officially an option in NZ.
6 June 2025 -3 mins
A much greener option than traditional flame cremation or burial is now available, with the first user ‘always liked to be first’.
REIMAGINING FUNERALS: THE ECO-FRIENDLY CHOICE OF WATER CREMATION.
31 July 2024 - 13 mins
Pacific Days is joined by Debbie Richards, founder of Water Cremation Aotearoa New Zealand and Andrew Bell, Managing director of Bell, Lamb and Trotter Christchurch's oldest funeral home, to talanoa about Water Cremations
WATER CREMATION AOTEAROA AND BELL, LAMB AND TROTTER ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
29 July 2024
One of the country’s oldest and most respected funeral service providers is partnering with one of the newest innovators in New Zealand.
‘IT’S A NO-BRAINER’: WHY AOTEAROA NEEDS TO RIDE THE WAVE OF WATER CREMATION
25 July 2024
Water cremation is the biggest thing to happen to the death industry in the last 100 years. Alex Casey meets the people trying to bring it to Aotearoa.
ENCOURAGING ANNOUNCEMENT FROM GOVERNMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
What is aquamation? The process behind Desmond Tutu’s ‘green cremation’
What is aquamation? The process behind Desmond Tutu’s ‘green cremation’
11 July 2024
The announcement yesterday by Climate Change Minister, Simon Watts, is being described as “encouraging” and “positive” by Water Cremation Aotearoa but needs resourcing and the Government to “walk the talk”.
What is aquamation? The process behind Desmond Tutu’s ‘green cremation’
What is aquamation? The process behind Desmond Tutu’s ‘green cremation’
What is aquamation? The process behind Desmond Tutu’s ‘green cremation’
2 January 2022
The anti-apartheid hero requested an eco-friendly cremation, which uses water instead of flames to process the remains.