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Totally Tunsie

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14. You might want to consider body composting,

Reply to Nitram (Reply #5)

Thu May 30, 2019, 02:31 AM

May 2019

which was just approved by Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington state.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/composting-human-bodies-now-legal-washington-state-n1008606

It allows licensed facilities to offer "natural organic reduction," which turns a body, mixed with substances such as wood chips and straw, into about two wheelbarrows' worth of soil in a span of several weeks.

Loved ones are allowed to keep the soil to spread, just as they might spread the ashes of someone who has been cremated — or even use it to plant vegetables or a tree.

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Green Burials: At the End of Life, Thinking Outside the Coffin [View all] elleng Nov 2018 OP

I want to be a tree Lunabell Nov 2018 #1

No cremation for me, elleng Nov 2018 #2

I don't even want the pine box! csziggy Nov 2018 #6

In Austin there's a park which will bury you unenbalmed in a fabric shroud for several thousand ... marble falls Nov 2018 #3

Ditto. elleng Nov 2018 #4

You are kidding essme Nov 2018 #12

Interesting. I've always wanted to be dumped in a hole next to a tree. Nitram Nov 2018 #5

Digging next to a tree could be hard - think of all the roots! csziggy Nov 2018 #7

Excellent point, csziggy. We don't want to damage the roots of the tree we will become. Nitram Nov 2018 #8

I'm lucky - I own sixty acres so have lots of room to plant trees csziggy Nov 2018 #9

We have two acres, which is too small to place under easement with any organization I know of. Nitram Nov 2018 #10

I'm in Florida and will be working with experts csziggy Nov 2018 #11

You might want to consider body composting, Totally Tunsie May 2019 #14

Cremation for me. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2018 #13

I'v always leaned towards cremation, but that does involve a contribution of greenhouse gases. Nitram May 2019 #15