Engineering360: "Washington state considers legalizing composting human remains"

Will let new credence to "pushing up daisies!"

What about the prions? If human prions become widespread in soil, then prion diseases will balloon, and good luck stopping that....This is the worst idea I have ever seen...This is only part of the reason we don't use human waste as fertilizer.....Using human waste as fertilizer may turn out to be the cause of Alzheimer's....Cremate the remains, save your children....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/would-you-use-human-waste-in-your-garden/2017/08/22/43556b90-82b4-11e7-b359-15a3617c767b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.310f95f3580d

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623093029.htm

https://www.nebiosolids.org/prions-tses-alzheimers-and-biosolids/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124715004374

Embalming with dangerous chemicals is not required for burial, generally only for those who wish to display the body for some number of days.

There's quite a difference in burying somebody in a casket in a graveyard and composting their remains and sprinkling them in your garden....

..."United States. The cremation rate in the United States has been increasing steadily with the national average rate rising from 3.56% in 1960 to 48.6% in 2015 and projections from the Cremation Association of North America forecasting a rate of 54.3% in 2020."...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cremation_rate

Yeah, I am all into composting stuff from the kitchen and yard, but bodies, not so much.

Seems to be too many potential problems with body composting for the sake of saving a metric ton of CO2 that plants like so much.

In my opinion, burials are a waste of perfectly good real estate. I couldn't even tell you what graveyards my grandparents are buried in, let alone visit the gravesites. Both my parents were cremated and scattered in various places like Buzzards Bay and the Chesapeake Bay. And my dad would have appreciated the send off given to a portion of their remains into St. Leonard Creek near Lusby, Maryland by a long-time friend of theirs.

Its interesting, how in this day and age, proponents of the 3rd Reich, are still coming up with pleasant propaganda to " humanely " dispose of bodies.

Soylent Green, anyone?

That was my first thought as well!