Article 5N819 ‘A literal return to the earth’: is human composting the greenest burial?

‘A literal return to the earth’: is human composting the greenest burial?

by
Dani Anguiano
from Environment | The Guardian on (#5N819)

California may legalize human composting, a process in which the body breaks down into soil over the course of about 30 days

Is there a greener way to honor those who have died?

Humans have caused unprecedented and irreversible changes to the climate in our time on Earth - pollution that continues even in death. But, across the US, some are posing an alternative: human composting.

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