It’s been talked about for years. Every now and then we report on an organisation that taken up the idea with most notable being ReCompose in the United States.

Now here’s a new take on the idea that seems to be getting some traction, once again in the U.S.

In: Human composting is rising in popularity as an earth-friendly life after death, Ella Nilson, CNN, December 29, 2024 writes that:

‘The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive home from the Washington state facility that had turned his body into hundreds of pounds of soil.

“We’re going to grow him,” she remembered thinking. “We’re going to grow him, and we’re going to continue to be his parents and his sister and his friends.”

Human composting turns bodies into soil by speeding up “what happens on the forest floor,” according to Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, the human composting company the Muckenhoupt family worked with.

“What we’re doing is accelerating a completely natural process,” Harris told CNN. Human composting is emerging as an end-of-life alternative that is friendlier to the climate and the Earth — it is far less carbon-intensive than cremation and doesn’t use chemicals involved to preserve bodies in traditional burials.

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