Composting of human bodies now legal in Washington

Image: Shutterstock/Ruslan Khismatov Image: Shutterstock/Ruslan Khismatov WASHINGTON HAS BECOME the first US state to legalise human composting after its eco-friendly governor signed a bill to that effect in a bid to cut carbon emissions from burials and cremations.

“The idea of returning to nature so directly and being folded back into the cycle of life and death is actually pretty beautiful,” Spade added in a statement sent to AFP. Her approach – developed with Washington State University, which did clinical trials with donor bodies – calls for a dead person to be placed in a hexagonal steel container filled with wood chips, alfalfa and straw.

According to statistics, more than one in two Americans opt for cremation. In Washington state, nearly 75% of people choose that option. The actor Luke Perry, star of the series Beverly Hills 90210 who died in March, was buried in a biodegradable suit made partly out of mushrooms, as he requested.

JCB / 6ft hole in garden/wrapped in muslin/in you go/plant a tree/all done.

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