Promession

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Promession is a newly developed burial method by freeze-drying and subsequent composting of the granules .

Terms

The terms promession for the process and promator for the system do not have a descriptive meaning, but are made-up words. They refer to the Latin term promessum (promise, promise), which is known in many languages ​​as a loan word that sounds similar.

history

Freeze-drying as a burial method was registered for a patent in 1978 by chemistry teacher Philip Backman from Eugene, Oregon . The Swedish biologist Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak received a patent in Sweden in 1999 for the combination of shaking and composting. The process was further developed under the leadership of Promessa Organic AB in Nösund (Sweden) and patented in 36 countries in 2002. The patents were incorporated into Promessa United AG, founded in 2006 together with the Hamburg management consultancy MOM United Consultants and the Ollerup Investor company.

At that time, the Lower Saxony Funeral Act already provided for a ministerial ordinance to allow the procedure if it is implemented.

In Sweden, where 80% of the dead are cremated and Wiigh-Mäsak suspected organized resistance, a foundation to run a cemetery and build a promotor failed financially. Glenn Mitchell, who is behind Promessa UK, acquired all rights and assets from the bankruptcy estate for 400,000 kroner.

The website of Promessa Organic AB still shows business activity in 2019 in the areas of franchising to national representatives and the training of interested parties.

Procedure

The promession accelerates putrefaction , i.e. the conversion of organic to inorganic substances, through prior cryotechnical granulation and drying of the corpse.

The corpse is pre-cooled to −18 ° C and placed in the device called the promator , where it is brought to −196 ° C with a liquid nitrogen bath. The body is then so brittle that tissue and bones can be crushed by vibrations into fine, odorless granules. The water is removed from this by subsequent freeze-drying , so that only about 30% of the original body weight remains. Tooth fillings, crowns and implants remain intact and are screened out. The granulate is then filled into a compostable urn and buried about 50 cm deep. Both are converted into humus within a period of 6 to 12 months .

literature

  • Reinhard Wolff: Biblical burial. Dead frozen and shaken. In: taz from February 13, 2002 ( online , last accessed on February 5, 2015)
  • Thomas Vilgis : Ice cold to the grave. The ecological death. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 8, 2007 ( online , last accessed on February 5, 2015)
  • Promession. In: Katherine Mariaca-Sullivan: When a Loved One Dies. The Complete Guide to Preparing a Dignified and Meaningful Goodbye. Kaleidoscope Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9832324-1-4 , p. 146 ff. ( Limited preview in Google book search)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Lück: Promession - Die Grüner die. In: GEO .de. March 27, 2013, accessed October 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Anja Jardine: Revolution in the realm of the dead. NZZ Folio, June 2014.
  3. ↑ Michael Schneider: Hamburgers market new technology for funerals. Die Welt, June 11, 2007.
  4. ↑ Lower Saxony Bestattungsgesetz (BestattG). (PDF) Law on the Corpse, Funeral and Cemetery System (BestattG). Retrieved October 30, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Ingvar Spetsmark: Engelsman köper rättigheterna i Promessa. Bohusläningen, September 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ promessa.se: Eternal Funeral Services to launch Promession in South Africa. March 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ promessa.se: Promessa MasterClass Education (news in October 2016 and April 2019).
  8. ↑ http://www.promessa.se/wie-es-funktioniert/?lang=de