Want to Be Composted When You Die? Time to Call Your State Representative.
It only takes a month for bodies to break down into soil.by Katie HerzogAn artist rendering of the future Recompose SeattleKATRINA SPADE
This week, the state Senate voted to approve SB 5001, which would legalize the "contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil"—or, as this process is sometimes known, human composting.
As I wrote recently at length, this is less gory than it sounds and doesn't actually involve turning Grandma over with coffee grounds and food scraps in your b
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