In this Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, photo, Seth Viddal, who co-owns The Natural Funeral, stands behind a nearly completed human body composting vessel in Arvada, Colo. On Sept. 7, Colorado became the second state after Washington to allow human body composting, and Oregon will allow the practice beginning next July. The vessel will be packed with wood chips and straw and will be able to compost a body in six months.
On Sept. 7, Colorado became the second state after Washington to allow human body composting. Oregon will allow the practice beginning next July. In Washington, the three businesses licensed to compost human remains have transformed at least 85 bodies since the law took effect in May 2020, and more than 900 people have signed up for the service as natural funerals become more popular.
“It accomplishes the conversion of the body back into a very beneficial substance — soil, earth,” said Viddal, who envisions building more than 50 body composting vessels. “It’s what’s going to happen anyway, right? I mean, we’re all going to turn to dust, basically. So this is just a little more natural,” he said. “They’re going to control the humidity. They’re going to control the soil amendments and hopefully some worms and some mushrooms find a good home in me for a few months. And, you know, at the other end of it, I’ll be just a few bags of dirt.”
The Colorado Catholic Conference, a group of bishops aimed at molding public policy, opposed the bill, saying body composting “does not promote human dignity.” Some rabbis also are against body composting because they say it violates Jewish religious law. Other opponents are concerned there is not enough research on whether the compost contaminates soil and there is no way to prevent people from using it in home vegetable gardens.
Who says we can’t live forever?
Good grief!!! Shades of Soylent Green!
Love it!
IMHO is narrassitic AF to be buried in the ground with a permanent headstone..... not to mention totally unsustainable. VikingFuneralForMe🔥😵🔥 🏹
throw me in the volcano, I won't care
I want to be entombed to guarantee that future archaeologists have something to dig up.
So honorable . . .
It is an attempt to eradicate cemeteries and later the land to be used by developers
This should be available everywhere.
You can thank my grandpa for these excellent tasting tomatoes and peppers. He's the gift that keeps on giving.
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Meanwhile government prigs and feckless bureaucrats refuse to allow even light cannibalism as a legal alternative.
As a former Navy guy, I'd rather be buried at sea which is also environmentally friendly. I can see the merits, but human body composting is something I'd have to get used to.
Nope still traumatized by that episode of Six Feet Under
HOW MUCH $$$$❓
This has ALWAYS been how I wanted to be buried! I don't want my shell to be in the ground forever
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Put me in one of these please, thanks. Burying people is such a waste!
LOVE IT. I want to be buried in a pod farm where they grow trees. My body would feed a tree.
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