novel application - funeral industry Humans now being legally composted in Washington state
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Three facilities are currently licensed to perform natural organic reduction
by: Hannah Ray Lambert, Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 / 05:34 PM EST / Updated: Jan 18, 2021 / 05:34 PM EST
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KLICKITAT COUNTY, Wash. (KOIN) — Human remains are now being legally composted in Washington state.
Walt Patrick slowly rolls a giant wooden spool-shaped cradle back and forth. Inside, a human body is gradually being turned into compost, one of the first licensed “natural organic reductions” to be performed in the entire country.
“This is simply another option at a time when people feel they have no options,” Patrick said. “You know, death has intervened and changed your life forever. How can you do something at least to make it the way you want?”
Patrick is the senior steward at Herland Forest, a natural burial cemetery and nonprofit research center located north of the Columbia River Gorge in Klickitat County. Natural organic reduction (NOR) has given them a second way to return bodies to the land.
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Another company is called Recompose whose web site says Colorado, Oregon, passed bills allowing the practice. Bills were not passed in New York State and California.
Hard to tell how big this market is or could get . There is another alternative .