Monday 17 February 2020

Ashes to Ashes: Compost to Compost?


Dr Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, at a recent American Advancement of Science meeting, has advocated composting of human remains (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/16/human-composting-could-be-the-future-of-deathcare). It is already legal in the US state of Washington and appears to be a greener way of deathcare than burial or cremation. I have always thought that we are but mobile compost.

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