The state of Washington is the first in the union to start “composting” dead human bodies as crop “fertilizer.

According to reports, Washington’s Senate and House of Representatives approved with strong bipartisan majorities Bill 5001, entitled, “Concerning human remains,” which was signed into law by Governor Jay Inslee, legalizing the “natural organic reduction” of human remains.

Bill 5001 will take effect on May 1, 2020, allowing for human corpses to undergo a process known as “liquid cremation,” whereby alkaline hydrolysis is used to turn rotting flesh and bones into an “organic fertilizer” sludge.

“I am very much in favor of the composting of human bodies!” declared Wes McMahan, a retired cardiovascular intensive-care nurse who recently testified in support of the bill.

“When I’m done with this body that served me very well for the past 64 years, do I want to poison it with formaldehyde and other embalming chemicals? No,” he added. “Burned? Not my first choice. But what about all the bacteria I’ve worked with so long in this body – do I want to give them a chance to do what they do naturally? I believe in doing things as naturally as possible.”

Katrina Spade, the founder and CEO of a company known as Recompose that aspires to be the first “natural organic reduction” funeral home in the United States, is also excited about the bill, which she says fulfills “a longtime hope” of hers to create “an urban, soil-based, ecologically friendly death-care option.”

https://medicine.news/2019-10-26-bi...shington-legalizes-human-composting.html

Methinks, not in my garden.

Liberal are really gonna stink.........

What do you suppose an urban, soil-based, ecologically friendly death-care option is?

Takes the terms "eat me" and "bite me" to a whole deranged level. Yuck.

These people are ate up with insane.

Article sounds like some sick satire from "The Onion".

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/washington-state-could-become-first-state-to-allow-human-composting

mmmmmm, prozac and alzheimers meds compost...mama's rose bushes be kickin ass

Might even find a geezer's pacemaker while side dressin some hostas

We’re talking about the new Burger King “meatless” burgers right?

Not only that but Washington state will hasten the process with assisted suicide. The people of that state seem to feel that humans are deserving of no more dignity than any animal. Chicoms feel the same way. Just saw an article on forcibly taking organs from living people they don't like such as Falun Gong for the benefit of people serving the state.

Here it’s done and all flushed down the sanitary sewer to waste treatment.

Don’t really know how I feel about it. I do know my brother had a house with a well that was downhill from a cemetery. Never drank the water there.

Ethel, spread a little more Fred over on those 'maters.

We don't need another profit motive for producing corpses.

Damn you! That caused me to spray beer all over my keyboard. Funny.

This shouldn't surprise anyone. The death care industry had people over a barrel for decades. A funeral can run $10-12000 pretty easily. A cheaper solution had to be found. Think about how many people you know who can't cover a $1,000 bill, let alone a $10,000 bill.