Warm water mixed with caustic lye dissolves body tissue over the course of a few hours.
Much like cremation, only bone fragments survive the process. These are ground up into 'ashes' that can be taken home.
Only New Hampshire has a law banning Alkaline Hydrolysis, but no one offers the service in Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, or Vermont.
It is both legal and available in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
f course! But you obviously wouldn't need embalming, a casket, a vault or your best outfit.
Like the removed blood and viscera from an embalming, it is drained into the municipal sewer system.