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Aussiesuede Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:42 pm Post subject: Dust to Dust Set to Become Reality - Human Composting |
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Quote: | Washington is just a governor’s signature away from becoming the first state in the U.S. to legalize the “natural organic reduction” of human remains, colloquially known as “composting.”
On Friday, the state Senate and House of Representatives finalized their approval of bill 5001 (titled “concerning human remains”), which enshrines “organic reduction” and alkaline hydrolysis, a dissolving process sometimes called “liquid cremation,” as acceptable alternatives to traditional burial and cremation.
Passage of the bill fulfills a longtime hope for Seattle-based Katrina Spade, and is another step in a years-long effort to realize her vision for an urban, soil-based, ecologically friendly death-care option. She is the founder and CEO of Recompose, which aspires to be the first “natural organic reduction” funeral home in the U.S.
In the seven years since Spade formally launched the idea, which started as a nonprofit called the Urban Death Project, she has worked with scientists in Eastern Washington and North Carolina to study how human bodies decompose in soil. (One trial involved the bodies of six supporters who’d volunteered their remains for research.) The studies demonstrated that the resulting compost met — and sometimes exceeded — state and federal safety standards for pathogens and metals that could be dangerous to humans, animals, or nearby plants. (Also important: The soil smelled like soil and nothing else.)
In other words, according to the research, carefully and properly composted human remains are safe enough to use in a household garden. |
Sprinkle a Little Grandma on Your Salad _________________ I'm On point, On task, On message, and Off drugs. A Streetwise Smart Bomb, Out of rehab and In denial. Over the Top, On the edge, Under the Radar, and In Control. Behind the 8 ball, Ahead of the Curve and I've got a Love Child who sends me Hate mail. |
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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la mamma è la pasta |
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Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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VicXLakers wrote: | la mamma è la pasta |
It'll be interesting to read the text of the actual legislation. Will you still need to have Granny's body sent to the county coroner for proper fluid drainage, or will you be able to just stop by Home Depot and grab a hole saw and bucket, drain fluids, before digging up the backyard garden, then lay Granny in it for a ceremony before shoveling the topsoil back over then planting the Tomatoes and Arugula?
Undertakers days could be numbered with turnkey $99 DIY burial kits becoming routine. The YouTube instructional videos outta be interesting. As should be the inevitable sibling squabbles over who gets custody of the skull & bones once the beatles, worms, and maggots have finished their work... _________________ I'm On point, On task, On message, and Off drugs. A Streetwise Smart Bomb, Out of rehab and In denial. Over the Top, On the edge, Under the Radar, and In Control. Behind the 8 ball, Ahead of the Curve and I've got a Love Child who sends me Hate mail. |
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