Reaction mixed to New York's new human composting law

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The Empire State is now the sixth in the nation to allow the composting of human remains, but as MKramerTV reports, not everyone wants to go to their eternal resting place like that.

-- The Empire State is now the sixth in the nation to allow the composting of human remains, but as CBS2 political reporter Marcia Kramer reports, not everyone wants to go to their eternal resting place like that.

"No, 'cause I just think of my dad's compost pile when I was younger. It was in a big tumbler, and then all the stuff went into it and you cranked it around, so," Roach said."I would rather be composted," Washington Heights resident Philip Bolton said.READ MORE: That's the yin and the yang as New Yorkers reacted to a new bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul that legalizes natural organic reduction, popularly know as human composting.

Paulin, the bill's sponsor, says composting remains is much better for the environment -- no chemicals from being buried, no carbon emissions from cremation. She said for her family, it's also a solution for her husband, who wants to be buried at their country house, since regular burial isn't legal anywhere but a cemetery.Supporters say that one benefit of human composting is that cemeteries could run out of space, but not everybody agrees with that.

Codey's family has been in the funeral home business since 1906. He says he doesn't think the idea will catch on.Seth Viddal, who has been composting bodies for about a year at his Boulder, Colorado, facility, says it costs just under $8,000 to compost a body. There's the cost of the vessel, the plant materials that help the body to decompose and the approximately three months it takes.

 

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MKramerTV I pass!

MKramerTV but if done do, go ahead . Funeral cost are like cable TV crazy over priced

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