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posted by martyb on Friday May 24 2019, @04:14PM   Printer-friendly
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Washington becomes first US state to legalise human composting

Washington has become the first state in the US to legalise human composting.

Under the new law, people there can now choose to have their body turned into soil after their death.

The process is seen as an alternative to cremations and burials, and as a practical option in cities where land for graveyards is scarce.

At the end of the composting, loved ones are given the soil, which they can use in planting flowers, vegetables or trees.

Grow vegetables using human compost from loved one, despair as pests eat all of it.

Previously: 'Urban Death Project' Proposes to Compost the Dead
Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead


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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday May 24 2019, @09:41PM (4 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 24 2019, @09:41PM (#847369) Journal

    You plonker!

    You don't seem to have realised that the original submission you are referring to is collected by a bot. That is indicated by the header which states "This is a bot sub and needs many editing". It includes lots of text and links that are irrelevant because bots cannot tell good text from bad text. It is part of our job to remove them. All internal links to phys.org are removed - they put tags on every significant word or phrase, which have nothing to do with the content. The Explore Further is not a link to another source on the same subject, but is to a completely different story.

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday May 24 2019, @10:28PM (3 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday May 24 2019, @10:28PM (#847384) Homepage Journal

    You're lieing again. Through your teeth. Because, you( Janrinok) kept the Tags. The Links to Tags. One of which has to do with Animals. And has NOTHING to do with Space Molecules. But, you erased the Links to the original article. EXACTLY as I said.

    And by the way, Bytram. People don't know this. It's Martyb -- written backwards. Obvious Sock Puppet!!

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday May 25 2019, @04:16AM (1 child)

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 25 2019, @04:16AM (#847493) Journal

      And by the way, Bytram. People don't know this. It's Martyb -- written backwards.

      If you have only just realised that, then I suspect that you are the only person that didn't know it! martyb is his SN username, and Bytram is his IRC nickname. So, not a sock puppet but 2 different usernames for 2 different places. If he submits a story via one of several bots that we maintain on IRC then his IRC nick will be used automatically.

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday May 25 2019, @06:43AM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 25 2019, @06:43AM (#847527) Journal

      I'm not lying. However, I am guilty as charged on 2 earlier stories. One of the bots (Arthur the Bot) that we use is written by myself. In a recent update (from version 3 to 4) the automatic removal of local links on phys.org submissions had a bug and didn't complete the processing properly. This was not identified until after the earlier stories had been released. It was subsequently fixed and now functions as intended again (I hope!).