Before Archbishop Desmond Tutu was interred in a simple 30-minute ceremony in Cape Town's Anglican church, St. George's Cathedral, his body underwent so-called flameless cremation, a water-based version that uses 90% less energy than traditional burning.
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Tutu, who became an Anglican priest in the early 1960s, was awarded the Nobel prize in 1984 for his non-violent opposition to apartheid. He later became the first Black archbishop of Cape Town.