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The body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to be reduced to dust by aquamation, a new cremation method using water that funerary parlours are touting as environmentally friendly.Like human composting, a technique of composting bodies with layers of organic material such as leaves or wood chips, aquamation is still authorised …

South Africans from all corners of retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s “rainbow nation” filed past his plain pine casket by the hundreds on Friday to pay their respects to his life of activism for equality for all races, creeds and sexual orientations.“He was a moral giant. He was a moral and …