I support anyone wanting whatever disposition type that is for them. That's the beauty of having options and personal choice. However, I prefer being preserved and kept forever. I want to be among my family, with my wife by my side. Just as in life, in death, too. Traditional burial for me, all the way.
As a funeral director, I’m sure you’ve seen firsthand how important it is for people to make their wishes known. Whatever someone chooses, the key is making sure their loved ones are in the loop!
I love the way people are coming up with greener body disposition options. I've got a background in environmental science but now work in deathcare and I'm looking forward to a (near) future where composting, natural burial, and even alkaline hydrolysis are more common!
I was team body donation for so long -- since high school (I wrote about it on here!) -- but as I've thought more and more about the purpose of my body after I die, human composting seems like it's the best choice for me. My family is primarily team composting for their bodies, too!
I love that! I’m giggling to myself, picturing your whole family becoming a little forest—growing side by side as trees, wildflowers, or whatever plants decide to take root—such a beautiful way to stay connected.
Katrina specially designed human composting as a way to perform natural burial in urban communities. I’d love to tell the story of natural burial and how it allows people a unique opportunity act in service of their grief, working through their feelings, as they return the body to the very earth that sustained it in life sustaining for future generations and offering opportunities to conserve land and help restore ecosystems.
And unlike human composting, it offers the opportunity to actually conserve land. All cemeteries, including natural burial ground, are created in perpetuity. Natural burial enhances soil health which means that natural burial grounds are environmental tools for restoring land, and reconnecting wildlife corridors outside of urban areas. It is so important that, in addition to educating urban communities about the values of human composting, we educate people outside of urban areas to understand the value of natural burial to their communities.
I’d like to be composted and turned into a rose garden ❤️
Ok . I am convinced it’s the way to go . Pun intended . But need more vessels. Need one on the east coast in New England.
I support anyone wanting whatever disposition type that is for them. That's the beauty of having options and personal choice. However, I prefer being preserved and kept forever. I want to be among my family, with my wife by my side. Just as in life, in death, too. Traditional burial for me, all the way.
As a funeral director, I’m sure you’ve seen firsthand how important it is for people to make their wishes known. Whatever someone chooses, the key is making sure their loved ones are in the loop!
The Epicureans believed that our atoms disperse and join the universe. I imagine they wouldn't mind at all being composted.
Feels pretty poetic (and practical) to me.
I love the way people are coming up with greener body disposition options. I've got a background in environmental science but now work in deathcare and I'm looking forward to a (near) future where composting, natural burial, and even alkaline hydrolysis are more common!
Maybe I'll write about water cremation next!
I was team body donation for so long -- since high school (I wrote about it on here!) -- but as I've thought more and more about the purpose of my body after I die, human composting seems like it's the best choice for me. My family is primarily team composting for their bodies, too!
I love that! I’m giggling to myself, picturing your whole family becoming a little forest—growing side by side as trees, wildflowers, or whatever plants decide to take root—such a beautiful way to stay connected.
Katrina specially designed human composting as a way to perform natural burial in urban communities. I’d love to tell the story of natural burial and how it allows people a unique opportunity act in service of their grief, working through their feelings, as they return the body to the very earth that sustained it in life sustaining for future generations and offering opportunities to conserve land and help restore ecosystems.
Natural burial is a beautiful option as well!
And unlike human composting, it offers the opportunity to actually conserve land. All cemeteries, including natural burial ground, are created in perpetuity. Natural burial enhances soil health which means that natural burial grounds are environmental tools for restoring land, and reconnecting wildlife corridors outside of urban areas. It is so important that, in addition to educating urban communities about the values of human composting, we educate people outside of urban areas to understand the value of natural burial to their communities.