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Human Composting Is Now Legal in California, Leading the Way to 'Soylent Green'
Red State ^ | 09/19/2022 | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

Posted on 09/19/2022 8:28:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Remember the Charlton Heston movie Soylent Green?

 

It comes to mind, because this 1973 futuristic movie was set in 2022.

Let that sink in.

It also comes to mind because thanks to Biden’s economic agenda (or lack thereof), much of the dystopian ethos of that world is being baked into our everyday lives. The World Economic Forum keeps pushing new forms of insect protein on us, and it was only a matter of time before cannibalism was happily presented as an idea whose time had come.

For the sake of the environment, even our death traditions are being restructured to fit the paradigm of you will own nothing and you will be happy with it. It’s wasteful to plant a headstone to memorialize your loved one, not to mention selfish. The land should belong to everyone, and you can contribute to its flourishing by composting your loved ones remains.

Save the planet, and save some space.

While this is not a new concept (it started in Washington state), making the idea hip, palatable, and righteous has moved to the next level.

And of course, California leads the way.

From the San Francisco Gate:

There are traditionally two options for what to do with a body after death: burial or cremation.

In California, a third choice will soon present itself for those who shuffle off this mortal coil. That choice is human composting.

Assembly Bill 351, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday, will allow residents to choose human composting, or natural organic reduction (NOR), after death starting in 2027.

The process of composting a cadaver, already legalized in Washington, Colorado and Oregon, involves placing the body in a reusable container, surrounding it with wood chips and aerating it to let microbes and bacteria grow. After about a month, the remains will decompose and be fully transformed into soil. Companies such as Recompose in Washington offer the service at a natural organic reduction facility.

Unlike cremation, the process avoids the burning of fossil fuels and emission of carbon monoxide. National Geographic estimates that cremations in the U.S. alone emit about 360,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.

Ahh, climate change. No wonder Hair Gel signed it. As I write, His Hairfulness has abandoned the state to attend Climate Week NYC, because he pushes zero emissions and an all electric California by 2035, but begs people not to charge their electric vehicles in order to not overwhelm the power grid.

Totally brill.

During the early depths of the coronavirus pandemic, when funeral homes were inundated, Los Angeles County suspended regulations on cremation emissions. The author of the bill, Democratic Assemblymember Cristina Garcia, says the threat of climate change motivated the new law.

“AB 351 will provide an additional option for California residents that is more environmentally-friendly and gives them another choice for burial,” said Garcia in a statement. “With climate change and sea-level rise as very real threats to our environment, this is an alternative method of final disposition that won’t contribute emissions into our atmosphere.”

AB 351 was signed into law! It legalizes “human composting” as an after-death option.

Wildfires, extreme drought, record heat waves reminds us that climate change is real and we must do everything we can to reduce methane & CO2 emissions. @Earth_Funeral https://t.co/iKJ9QK0qDU

— Cristina Garcia (@AsmGarcia) September 19, 2022

You know if Cristina Garcia is attached to it, there’s a kickback in the middle of the human compost, especially since there is a five-year stretch between the signing of the law and the actual implementation (2027).

Garcia is the genius behind California bills which dictated the non-binary Target aisle, “period poverty,” and “stealthing.” She is also one of the most corrupt members of California’s Assembly; and that’s saying a lot. After supposedly championing the whole #MeToo in the California Assembly in 2018, she was accused of sexual harassment, along with making racist comments.

Quite the package, and totally on brand for the face of the Democrat Supermajority.

Garcia’s 58th District, between SouthGate and Santa Fe Springs in Southern California, is part of the infamous corridor of corruption—elected officials and bureaucrats within the public utilities make it an art form to rape the taxpayers while feathering their nests. So, bet you dollars to donuts that if we dig into the financial records of Recompense, or whatever company will be handling this new boondoggle, we will probably find Garcia’s dirty hands all over it.

The ethical considerations behind it are also questionable. The Catholic Church, for one, is none too happy.

The idea of composting human remains has raised some ethical questions. Colorado’s version of the law dictates that the soil of multiple people cannot be combined without consent, the soil cannot be sold and it cannot be used to grow food for human consumption. The California bill bans the combining of multiple peoples’ remains, unless they are family, but unlike Colorado, California is not explicitly banning the sale of the soil or its use growing food for human consumption.

The process has met opposition in California from the Catholic Church, which say the process “reduces the human body to simply a disposable commodity.”

Sounds like another death practice that the Supreme Court released back to the states to decide, and that California is falling all over itself to enshrine.

“NOR uses essentially the same process as a home gardening composting system,” the executive director of the California Catholic Conference, Kathleen Domingo, said in a statement shared with SFGATE. She added that the process was developed for livestock, not humans.

“These methods of disposal were used to lessen the possibility of disease being transmitted by the dead carcass,” she said. “Using these same methods for the ‘transformation’ of human remains can create an unfortunate spiritual, emotional and psychological distancing from the deceased.”

The church also said that the process, which may lead to remains being dispersed in public locations “risks people treading over human remains without their knowledge while repeated dispersions in the same area are tantamount to a mass grave.”

The executive director of the archdiocese of San Francisco, Peter Marlow, told SFGATE that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone opposes the law, and stands by the position of the California Catholic Conference.

While we are watching the Left go scorched earth in their wholesale destruction of traditional values and institutions, and in some respects, the Right’s accedence to it, death traditions and the recent erosion of them was not necessarily on anyone’s Bingo card. But think back to June of 2020, when we were fighting lockdowns and restrictions on gatherings, even funerals, while the Left conducted a three-day, multi-city, full-court press “honoring” the death of George Floyd and they expected you to just take it. The same with the July packed funeral for Rep. John Lewis. My dear cousin passed away in June of 2020, and we had to have a memorial for him over Zoom.

Dead bodies, whether from COVID or other illnesses and fatalities were allowed to back up and pile up, thrown into refrigerated vans like so much detritus. It has only been recently that things have returned to normal; if you can call it that.

Illinois lawmakers have also been pushing to legalize human composting as a means of burial over the last few years. The Illinois Family Institute has been exposing the agenda behind this and draws a straight line between the trans agenda and this so-called new form of honoring life.

Isn’t “recomposition” what the “trans” cult believes they can do? Don’t they believe they can recompose male bodies into female bodies?

In a grave tone of voice with not a glimmer of irony, Spade [CEO of Recompense] pays lip service (or as Macbeth calls it “mouth honor”) to the natural and deep reverence people have for the bodies of loved ones as demonstrated in the ceremonies that attend their deaths:

Imagine it: part public park, part funeral home, part memorial to the people we love, a place where we can reconnect to the cycles of nature and treat bodies with gentleness and respect.

Hmmm… is that how most people conceive of human-composting?

Human composting will be voluntary at first, but how long will that last? Probably about as long as voluntary euthanasia. Doctors are now performing non-voluntary euthanizations. And what comes after non-voluntary human composting? Mandatory human composting.

How long before cannibalism of recently deceased humans is legalized? After all, why waste all that good meat. Maybe we could call it Soylent Green.

Charlton Heston and the Soylent Green filmmakers probably had no idea they were prophets.



TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: california; composting; humancomposting; soylentgreen
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To: SeekAndFind

I didn’t know or remember Soylent Green was set in 2022. One of the movies I watched as a kid that scared the boogers out of me. Heston made some pretty powerful movies. The Ten Commandments, Soylent Green, The Omega Man. All affected me greatly as a kid. I still watch The Ten Commandments every Easter.


21 posted on 09/19/2022 9:49:23 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Jamestown1630

When I snuff it, I would be perfectly happy to be tossed up on the ridge and just let nature do its thing.

Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.


22 posted on 09/19/2022 9:50:51 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: NetAddicted

By the time Gavin Newsom is done with California, you’ll see Edward G. Robinson on an exercycle-generator.


23 posted on 09/19/2022 9:54:23 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Jamestown1630

The burial ceremony is for the living, the culture, and it evidently serves an important purpose.

This is just another big jump from the left in the deconstructing of our society and our relationship with each other and with life and God.

Euthanasia of the old, post-birth abortion, operating on children to make them look like the sex their 10-year-old selves feel like that month, skipping the cemetery, and putting the dead to use in fertilizer bags.

The left knows what they are doing and they are good at what they do as they remove barrier after barrier and make us ever more indifferent to everything and non-connected to anything or to each other, after all, to repeat one of their old major steps “sex is just like going to the bathroom, it is just a body function”.


24 posted on 09/19/2022 9:55:37 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Salamander

We’ll give you the Tibetan ‘Sky Burial’. I think the Native Americans had something similar...


25 posted on 09/19/2022 9:57:53 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Not really. While yes, bodies were not embalmed (or cremated after Christianity took hold), they were buried individually in marked graves in consecrated ground with reverence. Yes, most were buried in simple wooden coffins or in shrouds only, and quickly decomposed, but they were treated with honor and care and given a space in the earth to be honored.

In places where space was limited and grave sites had to be reused, then many, many years after burial, bones might be removed to an ossuary or church crypt. In my extreme circumstances, such as during the Black Plague or after a huge battle, bodies were sometimes buried in trenches.

Honoring the dead is universally human, whether burial at sea, sending the deceased off on a journey to the next life in a burning Viking ship (one of the coolest and most creative methods), cremation or burial, people honored their dead.

In college, I worked on a archaeological dig of 9th century Eastern Woodland American Indian stone box burials. Because of the limestone boxes, the skeletons were perfectly preserved. We treated them with honor, excavating with spoons and soft brushes, and the bones were later reinterred elsewhere by their (most likely) band of descendents (the original cemetery was in a construction site). They all faced east. Sometimes a stone box had been reused, with the bones of the previous occupant carefully arranged at the foot of the box. There were grave goods, too. Clay pots and whatnot.

Composting is the commodification of human beings, treating them like trash to be recycled, or yard waste or whatever, a raw material to be made into a useful product.

We’ve already commodified pre-born babies. If wanted he’s called a baby before birth. If unwanted, she’s called “the products of conception” and disposed of as biological waste after being killed, sometimes after useful bits have been sold off to a lab. Want a child, but no hubby? There’s always the sperm bank where you can choose from a catalogue of characteristics you’d like your kid to inherit. Gay and want a baby? You can rent the womb of a desperately poor woman in a desperately poor country. Nevemind that a child needs both father and mother, and that every child craves both biological parents.

Now we want to commodify the dead, too. So much for being created in the image of God, so much for every human being having intrinsic worth. Kill the unwanted babies, compost the dead. Right now, treating human bodies as so much trash is still taboo between birth and death. But the idea of human bodies as commodities has also given rise to mutilating children confused about their “gender” and those grotesque implanted horns, amputated fingers, black eyeballs, etc. seen in those addicted to “body modifaction”. What next?

Oh why not power your television or heat your pool using grandma’s body as fuel?

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna45526347

https://energydigital.com/renewable-energy/dead-bodies-burned-heat-pools-uk

Thanks, granny!


26 posted on 09/19/2022 9:58:09 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: CatHerd

A life can be commemorated and the dead honored in many ways. I was very moved by all of the ceremony surrounding the death of the Queen today; but I wouldn’t have felt any differently if she were cremated or - yes - composted somewhere.

If individuals want to do this, I have no problem with it. I don’t believe anyone should be forced to do it, but I also don’t understand conflating it with cannibalism, selling of aborted body parts, etc.

As I stated earlier in this thread, I’m aware of some very conservative, religious Christians who have chosen composting for themselves. It’s what they wanted. I very much doubt that they viewed themselves as associated with any of the materialistic notions that you suggest.


27 posted on 09/19/2022 10:14:59 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: NetAddicted; SeekAndFind
I didn’t know or remember Soylent Green was set in 2022.

You sound skeptical.

The German title of the movie is "...Jahr 2022... die überleben wollen."

Regards,

28 posted on 09/19/2022 10:25:36 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Not skeptical. Just surprised. Soylent Green is not shown too much on movie channels, so I haven’t seen it in years.


29 posted on 09/19/2022 11:03:28 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Jamestown1630

Cremated and her ashes treated with respect, fine. Treated as a commodity — a raw material for compost, no.

It’s one thing to want a simple burial, plain wooden box or shroud, no enbalming, etc. It’s another to treat a human body as a commodity, a raw material to be used for some purpose.

On a societal level, it’s not so much what becomes of the body (in both cases decay), it is our attitude toward the human body, and how that attitude affects us and larger society. Are human bodies commodities or the temple of the soul created in God’s image? Are humans sacred or not? Before birth, is a baby a commodity to be nurtured if wanted, cast into the biohazard waste bin if unwanted? After death, is a human body to be honored, or a commodity used to make compost (or electricity)?


30 posted on 09/19/2022 11:05:49 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Unlike cremation, the process avoids the burning of fossil fuels and emission of carbon monoxide. National Geographic estimates that cremations in the U.S. alone emit about 360,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.

Except for the manufacture of the reusable container and the wood chips.

31 posted on 09/20/2022 12:08:10 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: SeekAndFind

the wife will probably murder me and bury me in the garden

is that what they are talking about?


32 posted on 09/20/2022 12:15:10 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: algore

unvaxxed will bring a premium


33 posted on 09/20/2022 12:15:58 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: SpaceBar

The cemeteries in New Orleans - kind of like this too.


34 posted on 09/20/2022 2:32:13 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: SeekAndFind

They don’t call the boy Gruesome Newsom for nothing.


35 posted on 09/20/2022 4:13:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Texas is NOT a border town for freeloading RAT voters. It's my home!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Serial killers have been ahead of the curve for years.


36 posted on 09/20/2022 4:25:42 AM PDT by wbslws
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To: MinorityRepublican

Cordon off San Fran and la.


37 posted on 09/20/2022 4:54:24 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SeekAndFind

Governor Hair Gel 🤣


38 posted on 09/20/2022 5:14:31 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Enabling them to destroy the evidence of human trafficking...?


39 posted on 09/20/2022 9:15:01 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh FFS

This is exactly how I want to go.

Anybody with a problem with it can go straight to hell as far as I am concerned.

Bury me in the forest somewhere, not in a casket or a church graveyard.


40 posted on 09/20/2022 1:07:36 PM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
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