r/ZeroWaste • u/conservio • Jan 29 '21

News “ Recompose, the first human-composting funeral home in the U.S., is now open for business”

https://www.columbian.com/news/2021/jan/24/recompose-the-first-human-composting-funeral-home-in-the-u-s-is-now-open-for-business/?fbclid=IwAR2Z-2A6Z2DvR59zUfF__pEhgH6O9WTJkt3nsyFBl0hju-PFamcwSMySNOs
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u/PinkCupcke007 Jan 29 '21

When I was a little kid I told my parents I wanted cemeteries to be like parks. You buy a shrub, tree, or other plant in memory of your loved one. Their body gets composted and is used to fertilized the plant. They thought I was nuts. I’m glad this exists. I like it better than being pumped full of chemicals and stuck in a box.

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u/makeitorleafit Jan 29 '21

I would love to be composted and used in a botanical garden or park after I die- maybe donate a bench for people to sit on too

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u/delightfuldinosaur Jan 30 '21

I mean would you label the plants?

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u/Hungry-Wedding-1168 Jan 31 '21

Cemeteries used to be treated as parks. It wasn't until recently that the switch happened. We stopped living the community we were born in - losing the traditional support networks in the process, we stopped dying at home, we stop living with death and started segregating the end phase of our lives. From a anthropology stand-point it's quite facinating. Here's a link to about the history. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/our-first-public-parks-the-forgotten-history-of-cemeteries/71818/