Alkaline hydrolysis / biocremation / resomation

Ideas
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Would it be too forward to add the funeral option alkaline hydrolysis or biocremation or resomation as an eco friendly alternative to burial and cremation? Selecting the proper name for the process may prove a little thingy.

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You can add custom event types and use them in your database. Iā€™d recommend to use the built-in burial event type for all burial forms and add the additional information as an attribute. So you can search/filter for each type while all people still have a burial event.

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Besides creating a custom event, you can also use the Cremation event type and use the Description field to specify the process used. You can also use the Note Link Editor to provide the link to the Wikipedia article cited.

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The definition of Cremation is expanding beyond flame. Just as flame cremation expanded beyond meaning a pyre. So flame cremation is just an assumption and prejudice of the moment.

So you could just use Cremation and specify the Process in the description or as a custom attribute.

Or you can easily add a custom event. But custom events arenā€™t grouped in Life Events submenu nor be a ā€œFallbackā€ for a broader event category. (In this case, Biocremation would be a ā€˜Deathā€™ fallback.)

But if youā€™re deadset on having another explicit option, you can certainly hack Gramps code to add another Life Event, make it a Fallback for Death. If you want to propose it as an expansion to the core Life Events, it would also need to be marked as a translatable text string. Thereā€™s an example of this in the proposal to add ā€œStillbirthā€ as a Life Event.

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Maybe an alternative for later versions of Gramps would be to add two checkboxes ā€œLife Eventā€ and ā€œFallback of Death Eventā€ or create two ā€œoverrideā€ attributes for them.
E.g.,

  • If an attribute named ā€œLife Eventā€ is added with the value ā€œYesā€ to an Event, it will be added as one to be included as soā€¦
  • Same if an attribute named ā€œFallback for Death Eventā€ is added as ā€œYesā€ it will be used as soā€¦

This way it would also be possible to add other Events as life events, e.g., important events like converting from one religion to another, where there might be used different calendars etc.
(this was just one I grabbed from the top of my head, not the best example maybe)

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