Natural Burials, Human Composting: Going Green Even in Death
“Essentially going back to the Earth as we’ve come, dust to dust,” said Ed Bixby, president of the Green Burial Council.
“We found green burials which traditionally don’t have as large a monument tied to it, help us preserve this very sacred landscape,” Stephens said. The country embraced embalming during the Civil War. Ancient Egyptian techniques were updated so that the bodies of some northern soldiers could be sent home by train, according to a 2017 article in Smithsonian Magazine. The body of Abraham Lincoln became the first of a president to be embalmed.
"Aquamation is appealing to me for my clients' sake," Thompson said."I want them to have options. I want to be eco-friendly." Human composting is legal in five states, Washington, Colorado, Vermont and as of the end of September, California. California’s so-called “natural organic reduction” will go into effect in 2027.
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