Posted on 05/21/2019 2:51:28 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
On Tuesday morning, Gov. Jay Inslee signed bill 5001, titled “concerning human remains,” making Washington the first state in the U.S. to legalize human composting.
The new law, which takes effect May 1, 2020, recognizes “natural organic reduction” and alkaline hydrolysis (sometimes called “liquid cremation”) as acceptable means of disposition for human bodies. Until now, Washington code had permitted only burial and cremation.
The bill had passed both legislative chambers with ample, bipartisan majorities: 80-16 in the House and 38-11 in the Senate.
This paves the way for Recompose, a project to build the first urban “organic reduction” funeral home in the country. Washington already has several “green cemeteries,” such as White Eagle Memorial Preserve in Klickitat County, where people can be buried without embalming, caskets or headstones. The Recompose model is more like an urban crematorium (bodies go in, remains come out), but using the slower, less carbon-intensive means of “organic reduction,” or composting.
The process, which involves using wood chips, straw and other materials, takes approximately four weeks and is related to methods of “livestock composting” which ranchers and farmers have been using for several years. Lynn Carpenter-Boggs, a social scientist at Washington State University, says that practice can turn a 1,500-pound steer — bones and all — into clean, odorless soil in a matter of months.
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People today apparently know better.
Paging Chinese investors to manufacture Soylent Green.
Dust to, uh, liquid dust.
I compost greens for my garden...SO Many damn bugs....
When my time comes, I’m gonna be cremated.
Maybe there isn’t much difference to some but I could not see myself being “liquefied”.
I’ll go the traditional incineration route.
Soylent green is people.
Gee, I wonder if the next step is to use the remains from all those abortions they think is the sacred right of all women.
This will fit right in with AOC’s “urban composting” insights.
She’s just recently discovered garbage disposals and the fact that plants grow in the ground. I can’t wait to hear her comments when she discovers rats.
“Soylent Green” is what immediately came to me, too.
Aren't they burying the bodies in this method?
UNDERTAKER: (Graham Chapman) Morning!
MAN: (John Cleese) Ah, good morning.
UNDERTAKER: What can I do for you, squire?
M: Um, well, I wonder if you can help me. Um, you see, my mother has just died.
U: Ah, well, we can ‘elp you. We deal with stiffs.
M: (aghast) What?
U: Well there are three things we can do with your mother. We can burn her, bury her, or dump her.
M: Dump her?
U: Dump her in the Thames.
M: (still aghast) What?
U: Oh, did you like her?
M: Yes!
U: Oh well, we won’t dump her, then. Well, what do you think: We can bury her or burn her?
M: Well, um, which would you recommend?
U: Well they’re both nasty. If we burn her, she gets stuffed in the flames, crackle, crackle, crackle, which is a bit of a shock if she’s not quite dead. But quick. And then we give you a handful of the ashes, which you can pretend were hers.
M: (timidly) Oh.
U: Or, if we bury her she gets eaten up lots of weevils and nasty maggots, which as I said before is a bit of a shock if she’s not quite dead.
M: I see. Well, she’s definitely dead.
U: Where is she?
M: She’s in this sack.
U: Let’s ‘ave a look.
(sound of bag opening)
U: She looks quite young.
M: Yes, she was.
U: (over his shoulder) Fred!
F: (Eric Idle, offstage) Yea!
U: I THINK WE’VE GOT AN EATER!
F: (offstage) I’ll get the oven on!
M: Um, er...excuse me, um, are you... are you suggesting eating my mother?
(pause)
U: Yeah. Not raw, cooked!
M: What?
U:Roasted with a few french fries, broccoli, horseradish sauce ...
M: Well, I do feel a bit peckish.
U: Great!
M: Can we have some parsnips?
U: (calling) Fred - get some parsnips.
M: I really don’t think I should.
U: Look, tell you what, we’ll eat her, if you feel a bit guilty about it afterwards, we can dig a grave and you can throw up in it.
“Until now, Washington code had permitted only burial and cremation.”
What? No mummification? No sky burials? No tossing it in the river and forgetting about it?
Dang bureaucrats always meddling!
“A culture that treats animals like humans, will end up treating humans like animals”
I can’t help but notice this comes at a time when Seattle’s homeless problem seems insurmountable.
Hey Junior - go out and stir up the pile.
I can’t - I lost the stick.
Well, figure it out. Just use a leg or something.
Sounds like laundering bodies got easier.
Our domestic enemies shouldn’t need to bring down an entire airliner for one person... Ron Brown, the POS Fraud’s “birth certificate” authorizer...
I will never go to that DAMNED state again.
A pox on the people who thought of this law.
I want to be put up in the crotch of a tree
so the birds of the sky can peck my flesh
and the critters can gnaw my bones.
Not allowed they say.
I think I’d prefer to be smoked frankly. In a nice Teriyaki hot sauce.
Perhaps you could get that gravely-voiced wrestler to perform the eulogy.
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