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- A California law makes it legal to turn human remains into compost
- The process involves placing the body inside a reusable container along with wood chips and aerating it to allow microbes and bacteria to do their thing
- The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week, takes effect in 2027
Micah Truman, founder and CEO of Return Homea, funeral home in the Seattle area that specializes in human composting, said there's been growing demand for the practice in recent years.
'With cremation, instead of sitting with our person and saying goodbye, we are very divorced from the process,' he told The Guardian.
Advocates for the bill, which was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week, have said NOR is a more climate-friendly option
The Catholic Church in the state is against the process.
NOR uses essentially the same process as a home gardening composting system,’ the executive director of the California Catholic Conference, Kathleen Domingo, said in a statement to SFGATE.
She added that the process was developed for livestock, not humans.
‘These methods of disposal were used to lessen the possibility of disease being transmitted by the dead carcass,’ Domingo said.
‘Using these same methods for the “transformation” of human remains can create an unfortunate spiritual, emotional and psychological distancing from the deceased.'
Washington, Colorado and Oregon have all legalized the process of composting human remains.
However, Colorado does not allow the soil to be sold or used to grow food for human consumption.
Under a bill recently passed by New York's state legislature, only cemeteries would be allowed to apply for a license to offer human composting - which the New York State Funeral Directors Association objects to.
'Funeral directors have always essentially prided themselves as being very responsive, fully responsive, to what a person deserves for their own funeral and burial - however they would like it,' Randy McCullough, deputy executive director of the organization, told NY1 News.
'And we still want to do that with this process. We're not opposed at all to the introduction of these alternative disposition processes, per se.'
---from daily mail online 22/09/2022---
A farmer can now do more than be out standing in his field, he can now eventually become part of said field.
D.I.Y. Human Composting is still frowned upon ( hiding the body)
in case you were wondering ;-)
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