Washington state first to allow composting of dead bodies

[requiem]

I mean as long as it is done by licensed and regulated companies and not people chucking grandma in the backyard with some orange peels and people aren't trying to sale food grown in the product

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Nothing would make me happier on my deathbed knowing I would be fertilising tomatoes in the afterlife.

 

[Deleted member 2809]

This pleases the Lecter

 

[Wackamole]

Awesome! I always wanted to be burried in a cotton cloth so i would wind up like that naturally anyway.

 

[Deleted member 28461]

Seems fine to me. I'd be pretty content to be turned into soil when I die.

 

[Lockness Mobster]

They givin away recipes on how to turn bodies into soil now?

 

[Breqesk]

I'm cool with being dirt.

Not for a while yet tho.

 

[dragonchild]

people aren't trying to sale food grown in the product

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Huh? Why not? All soil is corpse soil. The plants aren't particular.

 

[Slayven]

Huh? Why not? All soil is corpse soil. The plants aren't particular.

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I am just not that woke to be eating green beans grown in Mr. Watkins the CPA who died last year

 

[Bundy]

Ewww.... -_-

 

[OtherWorldly]

This is ridiculous . What's next ? Home food grown in backyard from grandma's soil?

 

[NotLiquid]

"MULCH?!"
- Gary King

 

[Finale Fireworker]

As a "death libertarian" (as Caitlin Doughty would say) I am pleased to see options for how folks wish to have their remains processed expanding. More green burial options are always good.

 

[davidnolan13]

i like this idea, better to scatter me as fertilizer than gravel.

 

[Skade]

This is so definitely going to happen at some point one way or another

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I mean... Most of the big battlefields of WW1 are now cultivated fields. At least in France. So it has been done for a very long time. That's just life.

 

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[Rendering...]

That's much better than remaining a gross decomposing corpse.

 

[skipgo]

So this is what's new with composting, endgame keeps delivering.

 

[Psychotext]

I really like this idea: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/03/world/eco-solutions-capsula-mundi/index.html

 

[Freakzilla]

I mean as long as it is done by licensed and regulated companies and not people chucking grandma in the backyard with some orange peels and people aren't trying to sale food grown in the product

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Why does this matter?

I definitely think this should be the only way we treat dead bodies. Use cemetery land to build apartment buildings and recreation centers.

 

[Chimpzy]

I'm getting flashback's to Mufasa's circle of life speech. I want to become grass and be eaten by antelope, dammit!

 

[Menelaus]

Sounds good to me.

I'd probably rather get cremated and my ashes sent to space.

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Good news, prices to low Earth orbit are already down to $1000 per pound with spacex, far cheaper than a burial!

 

[Saoshyant]

Graveyards are a big environmental problem, no joke. I'd say this is a step in the right direction, not only to make people aware that it's an option, but especially when people who did want to dispose of their remains in this way weren't even allowed to do so in the first place.

 

[sgtnosboss]

Do it to me

 

[linkboy]

I told my fiancee that this is what I want. I don't want to rot in a wooden box, I want what's left of me to go back to nature.

 

[Blue Lou]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/washington-state-first-to-allow-composting-of-dead-bodies.118304/

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A kind mod has merged the threads.

 

[Blue Lou]

This is an interview with the woman who lobbied for it.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Not that great idea for health reason IF the compost is used afterward in farm or gardens. This greatly increase the risk of certain type of parasitic diseases. If it's used in forested area then not a big deal.

I compost plants material myself and I would not use compost made of animal parts unless it's heated to high enough temperature to kill pathogens.

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My thoughts as well. There's gonna need to be some heavy regulation going on here.

 

[Figgles]

30 days doesn't seem like a whole lot of time to decompose a whole body. Does that include bones?

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