You Should Have Your Body Composted When You Die

Youre going to die one day.

The world will always continue on, but your death can help it do that.

Heres what you should probably know.

Why should you think about sustainability when planning for your death?

Traditional options, like cremation and burial, are fine.

Dont feel bad about using the limited options that have been given to you.

These arent excellent options for the environment.

Not only are these fantastic resources, but theyre kind of clogging up the works there.

Same thing with cremation: Were putting whatever is in our body out into the ozone layer.

Think about what you want your real final action to be.

Lets talk about natural organic reduction, or NOR.

Return Home is based out of Washington, where these green burial processes are legal.

Fournier and Truman broke down the composting process.

Truman said his Terramation process takes 60 days.

In the first month, the decedents body is placed in a vessel surrounded by organic material.

The things that digest the food we eat are also there to transform us, Truman said.

Were meant to go back to the Earth.

After 30 days, the body is fully transformed into soil, leaving bones behind.

All in all, this requires 90% less energy inputs than cremation.

The result is about 400 pounds of soil.

This is the stuff of life, he said.

This is what grows our Earth back.

Alkaline hydrolysis, too, is sustainable, though Truman warned the optics are a little difficult.

you might help with this movement toward sustainable burials right now, too.

If anybody has interest in these things, they should learn about them, Fournier said.

you’re able to get involved in the legal fight, too.

Death is hard, Fournier said, and its really hard to lose somebody.