"Human Composting Is Disrupting the Death Industry" by Nathalie Graham
Thanks to iowablackbird for contributing this article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Human Composting Is Disrupting the Death Industry by Nathalie Graham • Apr 15, 2021 at 1:55 pm Return Home CEO Micah Truman opening up a bag of terramated compost. NATHALIE GRAHAM When I arrived at the nondescript warehouse in Auburn, a team of construction workers was transforming the wide, empty space into a way station between this life and the next. This place was Return Home , the world's second-ever human composting facility. Once Return Home opens later this month, it will also be the largest. In 2019 , Gov. Jay Inslee greenlit legislation to allow people a third after-death option for their bodies. Instead of settling for being interred in a box or becoming charred dust in the wind, Washingtonians can now opt to be "terramated." That is, they can pack their corpses into sci-fi-like vessels filled to the brim with organic materials, and through a sped-up decomposition