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Most people plan to either be buried or cremated when they die, but there is another, environmentally friendly option: Human composting. "So instead of being cremated and turned into ash, you're ...
Human composting is emerging as an end-of-life alternative that is friendlier to the climate and the Earth — it is far less carbon-intensive than cremation and doesn’t use chemicals involved ...
After disasters with extensive loss of life due to trauma rather than disease—earthquakes, storms, human conflict, etc.—many resources are often expended on burying the dead quickly, and applying disinfectant to bodies for the specific purpose of preventing disease. Specialists say that spraying is a waste of disinfectant and manpower, that ...
Recompose charges $7,000, while the Natural Funeral charges $7,900, making them about comparable with traditional burial and more expensive than cremation, which is now the most popular death care ...
Promession is an idea of how to dispose human remains by way of freeze drying. The concept of promession was developed by Swedish biologist Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, who derived the name from the Italian word for "promise" (promessa). [1] She founded Promessa Organic AB in 1997 to commercially pursue her idea. [2]
The causes listed are relatively immediate medical causes, but the ultimate cause of death might be described differently. For example, tobacco smoking often causes lung disease or cancer, and alcohol use disorder can cause liver failure or a motor vehicle accident.
Since 2000, for-profit companies that have aggressively courted new types of patients for hospice, including people suffering from degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, have come to dominate the field. Because these patients live longer, the average stay on hospice is much longer at the typical for-profit.
Police believe Herb Baumeister targeted gay men and buried at least 25 victims on $1 ... believe the 10,000 human bones and fragments police found at Baumeister’s property in the 1990s could be ...