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Posted: 1/15/2021 9:52:45 AM EDT

Democrat Governor Jay Inslee signed legislation in 2019 making Washington the first state in the country to approve composting as an alternative to burying or cremating human remains.

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Democrat State Senator Jamie Pedersen originally sponsored the bill. He told NBC that the legislation was inspired by his neighbor, who was an architecture graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, when she began researching the funeral industry. She came up with the idea for human composting, modeling it on a practice farmers have long used to dispose of livestock.

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The body is placed in the NOR cradle along with 200 gallons of wood chips. Facilitators add a mix of bacteria, protozoa and fungi to speed up the reduction process. Oxygen is repeatedly added to the cradle to keep it in the 145-155 degree range. The operator of Herland Forest that KOIN interviewed, had solar panels hooked up to add extra heat when needed. The cradle is periodically tumbled to help disperse oxygen throughout the chamber.

According to the operator, humans tend to have a lot of unnatural materials in their bodies such as dental fillings, screws and pacemakers. That all must be filtered out after the bulk of the decomposition is done. They will also crumble up the bones to release the phosphorus.

After that, there will be four, 55-gallon drums full of usable compost. The family can take all of it, or donate a portion to Herland Forest where it will be used to help grow new trees in the cemetery.

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Advocates have said that composting is a greener alternative to cremation because it uses less energy. KOIN noted that human composting is also the only way for Washingtonians to be legally buried on their own property, even if it is the form of mulch.

https://thepostmillennial.com/composting-of-human-remains-begins-in-washington-state

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:54:12 AM EDT

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The compost will then be processed into green food chips.

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:54:33 AM EDT

[#2]

I for one welcome the green new deal

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:58:07 AM EDT

[#3]

Ok?

Posted: 1/15/2021 9:58:27 AM EDT

[#4]

Humans > mulch > garden > food

This is just cannibalism with a few extra steps involved.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:00:15 AM EDT

[#5]

Inslee just couldn't wait to get rid of insurrectionists.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:01:49 AM EDT

[#6]

I would do that. Other than my family having to haul away the compost. There already enough junk in the garage.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:02:02 AM EDT

[#7]

It kinda makes sense. Optional now. Mandatory in the future.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:02:05 AM EDT

[#8]

Mmmm, soylent green...

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Posted: 1/15/2021 10:03:12 AM EDT

[#9]

Whatever happened to wrapping them in a sheet and burying them in a pine box? You know, the original composting that doesn't require an industrial incubator?

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:05:05 AM EDT

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Someone jokingly mentioned Soylent Green the day the way things are going, then I read this

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:05:33 AM EDT

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Soylent Green Is People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-gocza6t8

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:06:29 AM EDT

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It kinda makes sense. Optional now. Mandatory in the future.

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Agree.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:06:30 AM EDT

[#13]

Naturally (

) bureaucrats have to interfere in natural processes and add unnecessary complication and expense.

Burying bodies directly in a hole is the original plug and play.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:07:33 AM EDT

[#14]

The family gets to keep the compost, yay!

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:08:39 AM EDT

[#15]

It will be cheaper to just bury someone in a cardboard box.

Fuck if I would want to take home my composted family member.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:09:40 AM EDT

[#16]

I wonder whether that law requires disposal of indigent, wards of the state, and unclaimed bodies at the state sponsored compost site.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:10:32 AM EDT

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A lot of countries don't embalm. I used to work with a couple guys from Albania. One was at work when he got the call that his father died. At that point, he had about 24 hours to get back to Tirana if he wanted to see the body. Same thing when another guy's mother died. 24 hour viewing, then burial. Shitty thing when you live in the middle of the US and you need to get to Chicago, then Frankfurt or Geneva, and finally Tirana all in 24 hours with no notice.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:11:32 AM EDT

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I've had soylent red and yellow, but I hear the soylent green are the best

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:12:05 AM EDT

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Humans > mulch > garden > food

This is just cannibalism with a few extra steps involved.

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Once removed so should be okay, but really!

It's like fucking a 2nd cousin

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:12:26 AM EDT

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I would do that. Other than my family having to haul away the compost. There already enough junk in the garage.

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Meh, too much fuss with all the tumbling and oxygenating and heating.

Just dump me in the dirt or burn me up. It’s just meat, no reason to do so much to it.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:13:25 AM EDT

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The Germans (among others in Europe) recycle graves after X number of years. It's called "clearing."

Basically they throw you in the same hole formerly occupied by someone else.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Reason = the don't have the land to keep making new cemeteries.

You don't buy cemetery plots. You pay for a temporary lease on them.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:13:38 AM EDT

[#22]

They're coming up with ideas of what to do with 75 million corpses.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:13:51 AM EDT

[#23]

I'm not bothered. not really for me, but if it's your deal, cool. I'm hoping my corpse is left in such a way as to be a pain in the ass for my enemies. "Why is there a dead body in your fridge Mr Grinch!?"

On a long enough time line, that's sorta how it works inevitably.

Organic chemistry is gonna organic chemistry.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:14:01 AM EDT

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Creepy! Check out the "dissolving" method of body disposal. Body is reduced to liquid in lye-type solution and dumped down the sewer. Saw an article saying that the funeral industry was considering it.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:14:44 AM EDT

[#25]

Found my new marijuana fetilizer.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:16:22 AM EDT

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We can market it as Soylent Green.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:17:12 AM EDT

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Kept at 145-150 degrees??? Motherfucker, they're slow cooking people. 100% soylent green. LOL

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:17:14 AM EDT

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The Germans (among others in Europe) recycle graves after X number of years. It's called "clearing."

Basically they throw you in the same hole formerly occupied by someone else.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Reason = the don't have the land to keep making new cemeteries.

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That's what the ossuaries in Paris and Brno were for. The hole is yours for like 8 years then you trade out.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:17:38 AM EDT

[#29]

that sounds absolutely crazy. just drain my blood, pump me full of preservatives , put me in a cheap suit, and apply makeup to my face, geez.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:18:24 AM EDT

[#30]

The Funeral industry will find a way to make it expensive. We just paid $4000 to have my FIL cremated and put in a ziplock &cardboard box.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:19:19 AM EDT

[#31]

How about burial at sea? Fishes gotta eat to.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:19:55 AM EDT

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According to the operator, humans tend to have a lot of unnatural materials in their bodies such as dental fillings, screws and pacemakers.

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Liberals tend to have a Lot of Unnatural Chemicals in their bodies.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:20:33 AM EDT

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What fish? China took them all.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:22:29 AM EDT

[#34]

Meh, stick my body in the recycler once I'm done with it. I don't really care.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:23:37 AM EDT

[#35]

He was soylent green the whole time

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:23:38 AM EDT

[#36]

#nobodycares

I always thought it was an expensive and inefficient waste of time to cremate people or fill them full of chemicals before locking them in a box underground as funerary practice. It's just one of those weird things that became popular for some reason, but really offers no benefit.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:24:30 AM EDT

[#37]

I prefer cremation.

One last CO₂ emission.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:24:59 AM EDT

[#38]

Sky burial for me.

Even greener yet.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:27:39 AM EDT

[#39]

I would do it. Already told my family I don't need a plot of headstone. Just cremate me toss me in the garden.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:28:22 AM EDT

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that sounds absolutely crazy. just drain my blood, pump me full of preservatives , put me in a cheap suit, and apply makeup to my face, geez.

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What...? You want to be Speaker of the House or something?

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:28:45 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/15/2021 10:28:57 AM EDT

[#42]

Do you want COVID-20!? This is how you get COVID-20

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:30:00 AM EDT

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Friday is soylent orange day.

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:31:15 AM EDT

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Creepy! Check out the "dissolving" method of body disposal. Body is reduced to liquid in lye-type solution and dumped down the sewer. Saw an article saying that the funeral industry was considering it.

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Well.....thats gotta be interesting with places that have "toilet to tap" water policies...

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:31:46 AM EDT

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“Daddy why do we call it Meemaw’s garden?”

“Well sweetie, every time we eat from it we get a little Meemaw in all of us.”

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:32:11 AM EDT

[#46]

How long does this process take on average?

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:33:43 AM EDT

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Soylent Green woodchips

Posted: 1/15/2021 10:35:30 AM EDT

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What...? You want to be Speaker of the House or something?

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that sounds absolutely crazy. just drain my blood, pump me full of preservatives , put me in a cheap suit, and apply makeup to my face, geez.

What...? You want to be Speaker of the House or something?