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It’s called human composting or natural organic reduction, and it’s currently legal in four states: Washington (which was the first state to legalize it, in 2019), Colorado, Oregon and, most ...
How human composting originated. The process was first legalized in Washington state in 2020. Since then, 11 other states have adopted the method. Those states are: Oregon, California, Nevada ...
Though human composting was common before modern burial practices and in some religious traditions, contemporary society has tended to favor other disposition methods. However, cultural attention to concerns like sustainability and environmentally friendly burial has led to a resurgence in interest in direct composting of human bodies. [3]
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Earth Funeral deposits the human compost from its clients on its conservation land, a 5-acre, sloping parcel overlooking Crocker Lake and in the lee of the Olympic Mountains. It was last logged in ...
For the second year in a row, Rep. Michelle McGaw, D-Portsmouth, introduced legislation (H 7212) to allow the practice that turns human remains, over a relatively short period of time, into ...
The Delaware Senate gave final approval Thursday to a bill allowing the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation. The measure passed on a 14-7 vote and now goes to ...
Cremation was the obvious alternative, composting is much better for the environment. It requires a whole lot of energy and produces greenhouse gases; a single cremation releases between 284 and ...