Washington may become first state to legalize human composting

[DGUtley]

Washington may become first state to legalize human composting. Washington legislature is on the verge of legalizing human composting as a means of final disposition. From the Daily News story - In the process — also called “recomposition,” — bodies are placed in a vessel which speeds up decomposition and turned into a soil which can be returned to families. The family could then use the soil that was once their loved one in which to plant a tree or to use as dirt in a flower pot, whatever.

Washington will also permit our remains to be liquified. The proposed Washington bill would also allow alkaline hydrolysis — where bodies are dissolved in water and potassium hydroxide in a pressurized chamber until only bone and a sterilized liquid remains… If passed, the bill would make Washington the 17th state to allow alkaline hydrolysis. Liquid human remains are not flushed down toilets exactly, but they are poured into sewers.



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...229-story.html

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ead-as-sewage/

[Common]

Whats next aborted Fetus Composting, WTF is wrong with these humans

[donttread]

Washington may become first state to legalize human composting. Washington legislature is on the verge of legalizing human composting as a means of final disposition. From the Daily News story - In the process — also called “recomposition,” — bodies are placed in a vessel which speeds up decomposition and turned into a soil which can be returned to families. The family could then use the soil that was once their loved one in which to plant a tree or to use as dirt in a flower pot, whatever.

Washington will also permit our remains to be liquified. The proposed Washington bill would also allow alkaline hydrolysis — where bodies are dissolved in water and potassium hydroxide in a pressurized chamber until only bone and a sterilized liquid remains… If passed, the bill would make Washington the 17th state to allow alkaline hydrolysis. Liquid human remains are not flushed down toilets exactly, but they are poured into sewers.



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...229-story.html

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ead-as-sewage/

Composting has it's points, but I don't really get the liquification thing.

[Peter1469]

It might be cool to use to grow a tree. I wouldn't want farmers using it.

[gamewell45]

Washington may become first state to legalize human composting. Washington legislature is on the verge of legalizing human composting as a means of final disposition. From the Daily News story - In the process — also called “recomposition,” — bodies are placed in a vessel which speeds up decomposition and turned into a soil which can be returned to families. The family could then use the soil that was once their loved one in which to plant a tree or to use as dirt in a flower pot, whatever.

Washington will also permit our remains to be liquified. The proposed Washington bill would also allow alkaline hydrolysis — where bodies are dissolved in water and potassium hydroxide in a pressurized chamber until only bone and a sterilized liquid remains… If passed, the bill would make Washington the 17th state to allow alkaline hydrolysis. Liquid human remains are not flushed down toilets exactly, but they are poured into sewers.



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...229-story.html

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ead-as-sewage/

I hate the thought of ending up in a sewer; think I'll stick with the traditional methods available thank you much.

[DGUtley]

[Helena]

There is a mortician who presents videos on Youtube about her work and she says that they are working to get this legal in many states, primarily because the traditional caskets, burials and even cremation do not handle the extremely obese well. This method does.

I've always found caskets and graveyards to be wasteful, unnecessary and selfish, not to mention exorbitantly expensive. Even cremation prices have been hiked up tremendously from when I first looked into it about 13 years ago. I do like a lot of the other options that have come down the pike. I don't find anything wrong with it at all.

What is it about this that puts you off?

[nathanbforrest45]

There is a mortician who presents videos on Youtube about her work and she says that they are working to get this legal in many states, primarily because the traditional caskets, burials and even cremation do not handle the extremely obese well. This method does.

I've always found caskets and graveyards to be wasteful, unnecessary and selfish, not to mention exorbitantly expensive. Even cremation prices have been hiked up tremendously from when I first looked into it about 13 years ago. I do like a lot of the other options that have come down the pike. I don't find anything wrong with it at all.

What is it about this that puts you off?

For me what puts me off is the disrespect for the dead although the composting does satisfy the Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust idea.

[MisterVeritis]

Washington may become first state to legalize human composting. Washington legislature is on the verge of legalizing human composting as a means of final disposition. From the Daily News story - In the process — also called “recomposition,” — bodies are placed in a vessel which speeds up decomposition and turned into a soil which can be returned to families. The family could then use the soil that was once their loved one in which to plant a tree or to use as dirt in a flower pot, whatever.

Washington will also permit our remains to be liquified. The proposed Washington bill would also allow alkaline hydrolysis — where bodies are dissolved in water and potassium hydroxide in a pressurized chamber until only bone and a sterilized liquid remains… If passed, the bill would make Washington the 17th state to allow alkaline hydrolysis. Liquid human remains are not flushed down toilets exactly, but they are poured into sewers.



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...229-story.html

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ead-as-sewage/

My youngest brother is planning to compost. I will donate my brain to movement disorder researchers. If there is anything useful left doctors can harvest parts to help others. Whatever is left of my body can be used for surgical practice.

[gamewell45]

There is a mortician who presents videos on Youtube about her work and she says that they are working to get this legal in many states, primarily because the traditional caskets, burials and even cremation do not handle the extremely obese well. This method does.

I've always found caskets and graveyards to be wasteful, unnecessary and selfish, not to mention exorbitantly expensive. Even cremation prices have been hiked up tremendously from when I first looked into it about 13 years ago. I do like a lot of the other options that have come down the pike. I don't find anything wrong with it at all.

What is it about this that puts you off?

If people are truly concerned about the costs; they could always donate their bodies to science and when they are done with it, they dispose of it in a dignified manner at their own cost.