This is the first newsletter from Promessa Organic AB since we started our work as a share holding company in 2001.
Lots of work has been put into our organisation, to protect the method by acquiring patents for the technical method/process, to build network and to find suitable partners both inside and outside of Sweden.
To inform you about the development of our ecological burial method, both here and abroad, we plan a series of newsletters during the year.
Promessa Organic AB continue the work to make the ecologic burial alternative become a reality, and the technical development continues as planned. So do the preparations in Jönköping, to make this the first parish in the world to be able to offer ecologic burial using cryogenics during 2005.
We plan to have all specifications concerning the facility ready before June this year. The matter will then be be prepared by the Cemetery Board of Jönköping and a formal decision is expected in November 2004.
Next, the local government will proceed to invite tenders construction of a building in direct connection to the existing crematorium. A building that will house the first facility for an ecological burial alternative, it will also be able to accommodate large groups of visitors. The start of the construction work is planned for early spring 2005 and the formal inauguration of the facility will be in the autumn 2005.
The homepage of Promessa is newly updated. For further information please visit www.promessa.se
On the homepage is also possible to order Mary Roach book Stiff in Swedish with the title Kroppens sällsamma liv efter döden.
An interesting description and expose of what has happened and continues to happen today with our bodies after death. Taking a a glimpse into the future, Mary Roach believe a new form of taking care of deceased soon will be a reality through the work of Promessa Organic AB.
It´s not only Jönköping that is interested in ecological burial. The parish in Arvika is also interested, and the interest is growing elsewhere as well, following an information evening with Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak that took place in April.
"Even if we will have to wait to autumn 2005 before a facility are ready, it will take take at least the same amount of time to install filter cleaning in a crematorium for approximately the same cost", says Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak.
Also the parishes of Enköping and Oskarshamn have shown interest of changing technique.
Sometimes we make mistakes!
We failed to judge the importance of the garden fair in Älvsjö in April. We should have been there.
The interest for an ecologic burial alternative was great, and the questions many from the visitors.
Staff from FSKP, The Swedish crematories´ staff, kindly answered all the questions as ambassadors for Promessa.
We give special thanks to FSKP for their help.
In Uppsala the staff at the secretariat of the archbishop is working with an upcoming "Bishops' letter". It´s meant to initiate work in the parishes concerning all the procedures around dealing with a deceased person.
In the letter coffin funeral, cremation and ecologic burials will be discussed.
There is a large number of private persons who write, call and send e-mails to Promessa, and there are more and more people who decide to choose the ecological burial method for themselves.
There is also a large and growing international interest. We get lots of mail both from interested individuals and from people connected to this line of business in Holland, Germany, South-Africa, UK and the United States to mention only a few.
According to an opinion poll in Holland, taken by NIPO in the autumn of 2003, more than 50 percent of the population was positive to, and interested in, an ecological burial alternative.
This was all for this time. We plan to send the next Newsletter in the beginning of week 28.
Best regards
Promessa Organic AB
