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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 ...
Recompose is a Washington state based company offering a death care service to convert human bodies into soil through a process known as natural organic reduction, or human composting. The process, which takes about 30 days, [2] is marketed as a green alternative to the existing disposal options of cremation and burial. [1] [3]
Washington was the first U.S. state to allow the practice of human composting. [ 6 ] [ 14 ] [ 4 ] Three burial businesses in the state of Washington offer human composting as of December 2022 [update] .
A tree grows in human compost at the Earth Funeral forest site north of Quilcene, Washington, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Site visit Lacey resident Chris Gourley, 43, visited the Quilcene site ...
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 ...
The first such composting facility, based Kent, Washington, accepted bodies in December 2020. [19] It developed from an earlier composting idea, formulated by architect Katrina Spade of Seattle, Washington, as the Urban Death Project. [20] The New York State Catholic Conference opposes this procedure and laws that legalize it. [21] [22]
The state of Washington’s first human composting businesses are open for business, offering “natural organic reductions” to residents. Walt Patrick, the senior steward at natural burial ...
What is human composting? One of the handful of businesses to offer the process, Earth Funeral in Auburn, Washington, started a year ago. Their process takes about 30 days, leaving behind a cubic ...