Human Composting Is About To Become Legal In Washington State

[Westbrook]

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/05/16/human-composting-washington?fbclid=IwAR03WjeYXkDjF6-hCHGzDdfGa9l1j46eNHQtjh4d1GaFq0n5LDobHIc29Wc



There are typically two ways to say goodbye to a loved one: burial or cremation. But in Washington state, there will soon be a third option.


Washington is set to become the first state to legalize human composting, formerly known as natural organic reduction, which turns bodies into soil within 30 days. Gov. Jay Inslee is expected to sign the bill into law next Tuesday.


Here's how the process works:

• A carbon- and nitrogen-heavy mixture of wood chips, alfalfa and straw is put into a container called a vessel.
  
• The body is then laid on top of the vessel and covered with the same mixture. To make sure enough oxygen is getting to the body — allowing microbes to decompose it — a fan system is set up to provide air.
  
• The body breaks down within a month, and what's left are two wheelbarrows full of soil.

To prove the process was safe and effective not just for farm animals, but for humans as well, six individuals donated their bodies to the study at Washington State University. They did so for a variety of reasons, Spade says.


"For some, it was a way to ... give back whatever nutrients we have in our bodies when we die, even if it's just a little bit, rather than burn that nutrient up or bury it in the ground," she says. "The idea of being able to give it back to this planet that supports us our whole lives — I think it was a little bit of that."


Many people aren't enthusiastic about the prospect of burial or cremation, says Spade. For them, human composting offers a viable alternative, and while some may view the process as ghoulish, it does help alleviate the problem of decreasing burial space.


Human composting will still offer places for families to gather to mourn their loved ones, just like a burial or cremation. They just won't feel like a typical funeral home, says Spade.



"Recompose is going to have rooms in our facility where families can spend a little extra time with the body itself," says Spade. "The idea is really for families to do what feels right for them."

Ideally, families would feel comfortable enough to have a service at Recompose — and potentially even participate in washing the body and laying it into the vessel, she says. Families would then be welcome to take home as much of the soil created over the course of the month-long composting process as they want.

[sean]

Human Composting has been legalised in Washington State, at least they'll be good for growing dank weed. Modern day caskets and embalming are notorious for being both bad for the environment and a waste of money. The only reason it has taken this long to legalise direct burial is because the death industry is a multi billion dollar lobby.

Imagine trying to do this on a large scale. The people working these jobs would either be emotionally dead, permanently depressed, and (possibly literally) prisoners of their job's nature under extreme 24/7 surveillance due to easy body disposal.

First they tell you that you can't bury people because "it takes up too much space we need more Walmarts not graveyards!". Throwing the finger in religious people's faces when destroying the body with cremation meant eternity in hell. Then they say that cremation is too bad so you need to be be put into an industrial meat grinder to be composted.

On a more serious note, this is just another product of new-age bullshit that has been around for decades. But just look at this shit, it's fucking stale, devoid of any human expression and flavoured with a multi-ethnic crowd with the wheelchair person thrown in. There is nothing that reminds us of anything spiritual. It's just empty, like the lives of the people in the picture.