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-Great Cultural Revolution
Decomposing HUMAN remains can legally be used as compost from 2027 thanks to new California law aimed at tackling climate change
2022-09-22
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Tony Soprano is rolling in his grave.
  • A California law makes it legal to turn human remains into compost

  • The process involves placing the body inside a reusable container along with wood chips and aerating it to allow microbes and bacteria to do their thing

  • The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week, takes effect in 2027

  • ‘With climate change ... this is an alternative method of final disposition that won’t contribute emissions into our atmosphere,' the bill's author said
Posted by:Skidmark

#15  Most of Hollywood will compost about as well as a sleeve of styrofoam cups.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-09-22 22:36  

#14  Just a reminder that Soylent Green was set in 2022. Maybe a year early, but a pretty close guess.
Posted by: Matt   2022-09-22 20:23  

#13  Bring out yer dead! For composting.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621   2022-09-22 19:13  

#12  #10: Earth First, now that CA's OK'd composting bodies, wasn't he just "ahead of his time"?
Posted by: Frank G   2022-09-22 19:01  

#11  Man has been giving deceased loved one proper burials since the dawn of time. It is one of the first measures of civilization. This should show where California is headed.
Posted by: Regular joe   2022-09-22 17:09  

#10  Ira Einhorn - 'Damn - 45 years too late!'
Posted by: Raj   2022-09-22 16:14  

#9  When my neighbor died in a car wreck his instructions were to bury him with no embalming, no casket. Just wrapped in a quilt. He left these instructions with his wife a few years ago. We picked his body up at the morgue, wrapped him in the quilt, loaded him in tha back of a pick-up, and burried him on his property. There were already at least 3 graves there with only rocks for headstones. Since there was already a cemetary there his wife didn't have to go through any red tape.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2022-09-22 15:26  

#8  Will complicate murder investigations in the future. Found a body in the backyard is no longer suspicious.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-09-22 15:15  

#7  'Tony Soprano'? put me more in mind of 'Fargo'. I DO hate to think of all the extra fuss and muss that Jesse and Mr White had to go through.
Posted by: Cesare   2022-09-22 14:57  

#6  Ultimate recycling of bodies.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-09-22 13:46  

#5  
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751   2022-09-22 13:08  

#4  Cholutle, I think this is what you mean...

Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-09-22 13:05  

#3  So I don't need to buy a plot at the cemetery?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-09-22 12:59  

#2  Heh. I been using it since 2007. Or was that 2005?
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-22 12:59  

#1  
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751   2022-09-22 12:54  

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