# Alkaline hydrolysis / biocremation / resomation

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**Created:** [July 27, 2023, 5:43am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/alkaline-hydrolysis-biocremation-resomation/3871 "2023-07-27T05:43:59Z")\
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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 aren’t grouped in [Life Events](https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Events_in_Gramps#Life_Events) submenu nor be a “[Fallback](https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Events_in_Gramps#Fallback)” for a broader event category. (In this case, Biocremation would be a ‘Death’ fallback.)

But if you’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. There’s an example of this in the [proposal to add “Stillbirth” as a Life Event](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/stillbirth-events-in-gramps/2309/2).

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