After a bill allowing human composting was signed into law on Sunday, California lawmakers approved a new method of returning dead people to the earth.
Chemicals such as CO 2 are released into the air when cremation is used. Natural organic reduction is the process of breaking down the body into its component parts.
The new trend is reef ball burials.
The natural reduction of human remains to soil is a more eco-friendly alternative to traditional burials.
With climate change and sea-level rise as real threats to our environment, this is an alternative method of final disposition.
Wood chips and flowers are some of the materials used in placing the dead in a steel box. The body can be returned to family members after 30 to 60 days.
California is the fifth state to allow human composting. The founder and CEO of Return Home, a funeral home in the Seattle area that specializes in human composting, said that the demand for such after-life care has been growing.
He said that with cremation, we are not involved in the process.
The California Catholic Conference said that the composting process reduces the human body to a disposable commodity.
People from 12 different states have traveled to Return Home to compost their loved ones because only a few states allow it.
When a body is composted, it is returned to the family to use as they please. Customers spread soil into the ocean.
Before he died, one farmer asked that his body be returned to his farm. After death there is no limit to what can be done with the soil.
The median price of $7,225 for casket burials and $6,028 for cremation in California is less than the cost of composting. The environmental argument for composting was emphasized by the man who had been trying to pass the bill for three years.
Climate change is real and detrimental and we must do everything we can to reduce methane and CO2 emissions.
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