Cemeteries across the country are Toxic wastes sites leaching formaldehyde into ground waters, Also a waste of good lands.

Composting makes more sense then using toxic cancer chems that just dont go to heaven and end up in ground waters.
I bet the churches will freak on this one.

U.S. NEWS
Composting of human bodies now legal in Washington state
Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation Tuesday making Washington the first state to approve composting as an alternative to burying or cremating human remains.
The vessel where the composting takes place.CAHNRS Communications / Washington State Univ.
May 22, 2019, 9:20 AM GMT+7 / Source: Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) — Ashes to ashes, guts to dirt.

Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation Tuesday making Washington the first state to approve composting as an alternative to burying or cremating human remains.

It allows licensed facilities to offer "natural organic reduction," which turns a body, mixed with substances such as wood chips and straw, into about two wheelbarrows' worth of soil in a span of several weeks.

Loved ones are allowed to keep the soil to spread, just as they might spread the ashes of someone who has been cremated — or even use it to plant vegetables or a tree.

"It gives meaning and use to what happens to our bodies after death," said Nora Menkin, executive director of the Seattle-based People's Memorial Association, which helps people plan for funerals.

Supporters say the method is an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation, which releases carbon dioxide and particulates into the air, and conventional burial, in which people are drained of their blood, pumped full of formaldehyde and other chemicals that can pollute groundwater, and placed in a nearly indestructible coffin, taking up land.

The finished product in "human recomposition" is soil that can then nourish new life.The finished product in "human recomposition" is soil that can then nourish new life.CAHNRS Communications / Washington State University
"That's a serious weight on the earth and the environment as your final farewell," said Sen. Jamie Pedersen, the Seattle Democrat who sponsored the measure.

He said the legislation was inspired by his neighbor: Katrina Spade, who was an architecture graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, when she began researching the funeral industry. She came up with the idea for human composting, modeling it on a practice farmers have long used to dispose of livestock.


She tweaked the process and found that wood chips, alfalfa and straw created a mixture of nitrogen and carbon that accelerates natural decomposition when a body is placed in a temperature- and moisture-controlled vessel and rotated.

A pilot project at Washington State University tested the idea last year on six bodies, all donors who Spade said wanted to be part of the study.

In 2017, Spade founded Recompose, a company working to bring the concept to the public. It's working on raising nearly $7 million to establish a facility in Seattle and begin to expand elsewhere, she said.

State law previously dictated that remains be disposed of by burial or cremation. The law, which takes effect in May 2020, added composting as well as alkaline hydrolysis, a process already legal in 19 other states. The latter uses heat, pressure, water and chemicals like lye to reduce remains.

Cemeteries across the country are allowed to offer natural or "green" burials, by which people are buried in biodegradable shrouds or caskets without being embalmed. Composting could be a good option in cities where cemetery land is scarce, Pedersen said. Spade described it as "the urban equivalent to natural burial."

The state senator said he has received angry emails from people who object to the idea, calling it undignified or disgusting.

"The image they have is that you're going to toss Uncle Henry out in the backyard and cover him with food scraps," Pedersen said.

To the contrary, he said, the process will be respectful.

Recompose's website envisions an atrium-like space where bodies are composted in compartments stacked in a honeycomb design. Families will be able to visit, providing an emotional connection typically missing at crematoriums, the company says.

"It's an interesting concept," said Edward Bixby, president of the Placerville, California-based Green Burial Council. "I'm curious to see how well it's received."

If they're going to use it as another money-making scheme for the Funeral Industry, I don't like it. Cremations, burials, funerals, memorial services, etc. are too expensive already.

Btw, if you're going to be cremated, make sure to tell 'your loved ones' to not burn you up for at least three days. Because I read some spiritual thing somewhere that it takes three days for your spirit to leave your body.

Come on now you have surrendered
common sense again How could. composting cost more than
Cremations, Burials, or a funeral?

Thats nonsense and you know it.
wonder what gallons of embalming fluid would do for a spirit?

Like I said church will freak on notion of organic Funeral

Our two main options for death, burial and cremation, are hardly ideal. For one, they're wasteful. Each year, for instance, we bury over 30 million board feet of wood, 1.6 million tons of concrete, 750,000 gallons of embalming fluid, and 90,000 tons of steel. That's as much steel as it took to build the Golden Gate bridge, but instead of building bridges, we're burying that steel underground. And cremation, the more ecological of the two options, isn't all that much better. Most crematoria are fueled by gasoline and burning bodies emits soot, carbon monoxide, and trace metals like mercury. Each cremation, according to the Funeral Consumers Alliance, takes 28 gallons of fuel and releases 540 pounds of carbon dioxide. It adds up. And it ain't cheap either. The average cost of a burial is between $7,000 and $10,000. Cremation, while much less expensive, is still between $2,000 and $4,000 on average, less if you bring your own urn.

There are a few other options: green burial, for instance, or burial at sea, or leaving your grandfather in a field and letting the vultures have at him. (This is what they do in Tibet, a practice known as "sky burial" and it's not exactly legal in the U.S.) But for the most part, if you die this year, you're going to be either conventionally buried or cremated. That's it.



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