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[gertrudecloset]

California's dead will have a new burial option: Human composting

It does not get any weirder or macabre than this.  In many states this is against the Law to leave a body without cremation or burial. I didn't even know this was a "thing" in some of our states until I read this story.

California will begin allowing an alternative burial method known as human composting in 2027, under a bill signed by Gov.

Supporters say it's an eco-friendly alternative to traditional end-of-life options. Cremation, for example, is an energy-intense process that produces carbon dioxide emissions, while traditional burial uses chemicals to embalm bodies and a nonbiodegradable coffin to store them.

California will join Washington, Colorado, Oregon and Vermont in allowing human composting.

https://www.aol.com/news/californias-dead-burial-option-human-033705405.html

[shoesnbags]

And Halloween is more than a month away! Ye gads.

[qbetzforreal]

Luke Perry was buried like this on his family's farm in Tennesee. 

Luke was buried in an eco-friendly mushroom burial suit which the manufacturer claims is able to remove polluting toxins from the body while naturally breaking it down.

[gertrudecloset]

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@qbetzforreal wrote:

Luke Perry was buried like this on his family's farm in Tennesee. 

Luke was buried in an eco-friendly mushroom burial suit which the manufacturer claims is able to remove polluting toxins from the body while naturally breaking it down.

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OMG.  I am positive that somewhere there is a "culture" that does this as we are not all the same and have different customs and norms, I just wonder about the disease the person may have had (if any).  If they can find traces of naturally occuring arsenic in drinking water, what in the world do we think will happen to the soil?

The good thing is this is an option and not mandatory....

[kitcat51]

You'll own nothing, eat bugs & when the end comes get thrown in a human composting pile where the bugs that eat you will then feed the living...a perfect circle for everyone but the elite.

[Citrine1]

Ewww.  This world just gets stranger and stranger.  Can't imagine what life will be like when my 9 year old grandson is my age.  

[GenXmuse]

My mother had a green burial which is based on the same principle. Also better for the environment not to leach all the the embalming fluid into the ground.

[Mz iMac]

[gertrudecloset]

From what I gather "The Catholic Church" opposes this.  They think it's wrong according to their beliefs....

[QVCkitty1]

Stranger than being put in a box an buried or turned into ash ?