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Elaborate death rituals are something that define our species, whether it's a casket funeral or
coexisting with a corpse.
And now, Washington could become the first state to embrace another funerary practice by making it legal to compost the dead.The method is called "recomposing" and claims to be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than traditional burial or cremation. It involves rapidly decomposing a body and converting the remains into soil. That nutrient-rich material can then be used to grow trees, flowers, and other new life.
The alternative practice hinges on a bill that state senator Jamie Pedersen plans to introduce next month,
according to NBC. It would legalize recomposing in Washington where burial and cremation are currently
the only acceptable ways to dispose of human remains.
A public-benefit corporation,
Recompose, is responsible for the actual composting. Conventional burial and cremation leave significant carbon footprints, Recompose
says on its website. Burial consumes "valuable urban land" and can also pollute the air and soil with embalming fluids,
separate research has found. While these choices
generally cost upward of $7,000, Recompose claims it will only charge $5,500 to compost a body.
Comment: Why don't they just shoot them as they do stone throwers? Because this sort of incarcerated torture sends a domination message. And Israel is all about expanding domination, be it outright or in the guise of 'moral duty'. It is all the same.