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SOFIA - European undertakers are bracing for aging post-war baby boomers and looking for eco-friendly ways to handle a sharp increase in business in the next 40 years.
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"We don't want people to die, but if they are dead, we want to provide them with a good service," said Henry Keizer, secretary-general of the International Cremation Federation, at a weekend conference in Sofia. Undertakers at the conference said they wanted environment- friendly methods to cut the waste resulting from traditional burials or air pollution from old-fashioned crematoriums. "They were not much different from a very large pizza oven," Keizer said. Among the possibilities participants suggested were high- tech plans such as freezing bodies and breaking them down with sound waves.
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