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With an upcoming bill, Washington state might be able to start composting dead people. The bill aims to legalize composting human remains and the heat generated by natural microbes should bring the pile up to 55°C for 72 hours, which is hot enough to kill key pathogens.
The method is called “recomposting” 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 recomposting in Washington where burial and cremation are currently the only acceptable ways to dispose of human remains.
Composting was prominent in the Larry Niven / Jerry Pournelle science fiction novel, Footfall. However, the discussion in Washington was initiated by Katrina Spade in 2013 while working on her master’s in architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @01:09PM
bones are not bio degradable? tell me not. i have a funny video i cannot upload to youtube that is about my dog eating a bone and watching it turn him into a triangular shape until he poops it back out. the pooping the non bio degradable bone is the most funny part.
dont ask me why he doesnt just eat it again, over and over and over, sine he cannot really digest it.
also they found some gen in animals with bones that once ingested makes dead bones invisible to the eye thus all meat eaters cannot see the mountains of bio un degradable bones that surround us.
a long time veggetarin broke out in tears and sobed hysterically when i asked her about this and and when pressed to for an answer, said that you dont need a rocket to get to the moon but that a secret vegetarian society has build a invisible ladder made from bio undegradable BONES to it already ...