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Composting people now legal in California.

So fucking what? :shrug:

Earlier this week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law a bill that will allow human composting, a “green burial” option that is slowly gaining recognition.

California is the fifth state to legalize the practice, following Colorado, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. Under the law, human composting will be allowed starting in 2027. The process involves placing human remains in a steel box with biodegradable materials, which help the body naturally decompose. That produces soil, which is given to family members, who may spread it or use it to grow plants.

Supporters of green burial options say that conventional burials put massive amounts of embalming fluid, steel and concrete into the ground. Cremations produce significant carbon emissions. Allowing bodies to decompose and return their nutrients to the organic cycle is a more appealing option for some environmentally conscious people.

“This new law will provide California’s 39 million residents with a meaningful funeral option that offers significant savings in carbon emissions, water and land usage over conventional burial or cremation,” Katrina Spade, chief executive officer of Recompose, a Seattle funeral home, told the Los Angeles Times.

Spade helped push for Washington state’s first-in-the-nation human composting law in 2019, and her company is the first funeral home in the country to offer the option.

Assemblymember Christina Garcia, the Democrat who sponsored the California bill, called it “an alternative method of final disposition that won’t contribute emissions into our atmosphere.”

The bill did face opposition from the California Catholic Conference, the Times reported. The group said human composting did not meet the “virtually universal norm of reverence and care towards the deceased,” turning bodies into a “disposable commodity.”
...and given the Catholic Church's history their in no position to talk...
 
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” - Gen. 3:19, ESV
 
So fucking what? :shrug:

...and given the Catholic Church's history their in no position to talk...

So what? This is some sick dystopian shit and it’s just not needed.


Then the government should never give an opinion or make another law again.
 
So what? This is some sick dystopian shit and it’s just not needed.


Then the government should never give an opinion or make another law again.
Like I said, so what?

What business is it of yours what they do there?
 
So what? This is some sick dystopian shit and it’s just not needed.


Then the government should never give an opinion or make another law again.
So we keep putting them in boxes in the ground until we run out of ground, just to protect sensitivities? So long as they're properly disposed of, who cares how it's done? It's a shell, a vessel, the person is gone.
 
Democrat hellhole of California
You'd be surprised at how many conservatives are here. Some small towns in California have a church on every corner and trump flags on every house. The large liberal cities (Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento) sway us into a blue state but in some towns here you would think you're in the bible belt.
 
So we keep putting them in boxes in the ground until we run out of ground, just to protect sensitivities? So long as they're properly disposed of, who cares how it's done? It's a shell, a vessel, the person is gone.
I've already made it clear in my will that they can put a headstone up for me at my church's next-door cemetery but they're cremating my body.
 
So we keep putting them in boxes in the ground until we run out of ground, just to protect sensitivities? So long as they're properly disposed of, who cares how it's done? It's a shell, a vessel, the person is gone.
And the soul goes to sleep, to be awoken at the Second Coming.... *deadpans* ...okay, I'm channeling my inner Adventist there. :P ;)
 
I've already made it clear in my will that they can put a headstone up for me at my church's next-door cemetery but they're cremating my body.
Likewise, I want my body to be cremated and the ashes spread wherever is least likely to get in the way.
And the soul goes to sleep, to be awoken at the Second Coming.... *deadpans* ...okay, I'm channeling my inner Adventist there. :p ;)
Dibs on coming back as a spoiled rich girl!!
 
Dibs on coming back as a spoiled rich girl!!
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...see ya' in the New Jerusalem then! :P
(Psst: hopefully not for a couple decades!)
 
Likewise, I want my body to be cremated and the ashes spread wherever is least likely to get in the way.
Maybe someday we can scatter them over in the air above Serafin....you know, a rhetorical :censored: to him.... :P :hug:
 
Poor Sarafin, I'm sure in spite of his ignorance he's a nice guy
Despite our often BMW'ing (BMW - Bitch, Moan & Whine) @WHO IS SERAFIN is a genuinely nice guy and a damn good photographer who frankly, IMO, ought to go pro at that.
Maybe I'll have a nice silky pair of panties dropped with my ashes, too, a gift for him :D
Just Do It Shia GIF by MOODMAN
 
Despite our often BMW'ing (BMW - Bitch, Moan & Whine) @WHO IS SERAFIN is a genuinely nice guy and a damn good photographer who frankly, IMO, ought to go pro at that.
I figured as much, just differing views on some key issues. Shame on that front, but good to hear he's an otherwise good person!
Temping...so tempting :D
 
So we keep putting them in boxes in the ground until we run out of ground, just to protect sensitivities? So long as they're properly disposed of, who cares how it's done? It's a shell, a vessel, the person is gone.

Well I’m a burn me and dispose of me kind of guy but if people can pay yes we do just that because we’re not in any threat of not having enough land. Anyways since they have a epidemic of poor people because of a poorly managed state I imagine they are trying to get clever on what to do with dead homeless people. Just cremate them and dispose of them with some dignity.
 
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