Colorado Considers Legalizing Human Composting - Should More States Follow?

I had a good laugh at the silly ignorant responses.”Gonna throw grannie in the backyard! Disease! It’ll ruin the neighborhood. Respect dead bodies!”LOL. I feel so good about myself that I’m not silly stupid.

Isn’t that how it should be instead of adding pollutants into the ground such as formaldehyde?

It is definitely an alternative......our cemeteries are rapidly filling up with bodies pumped full of lord knows what kinds of chemicals after death....and again, lord knows what chemicals and additives, have been pumped into our living bodies over the years, what with medications .......pesticides and preservatives in our food (we are what we eat)....I can't really see how the supposed "nutrients' in our ravaged bodies will replenish and enhance the soil but, it probably beats being pumped full of MORE chemicals and buried or "going up in smoke"

This sounds like a good idea to me

its their bodies why not as long as it doesn't end up in my food or water i don't care

More safe options for corpse disposal are necessary! Also, composting corpses is the most green way to deal with our parts once we’re done living in them. Personally I would rather an aqua-mation but that is also still illegal in most, if not all of the USA.

NO! Geez what will we come up with next?

What is this a video game desolate wasteland what are you doing I mean I’ve seen it in a few video games but that’s just for pretend if we agree to use human composting in each and every state then that means that we have no respect for the dead

My mother in law died several years ago in a nursing home in NY State. She didn’t want a funeral or anyone to be notified that she died. Her only request was to be buried next to her son and husband. We notified the funeral home and that in the above case we didn’t need a casket or even to embalm her that we could by a sealed vault and a special cardboard box and they could put her in the ground that day. It had not froze the ground yet but that next few days we could not get her in the ground because of the weather. We were in Louisiana so we agreed and it was done.

WTF are you serious? So we just treat people like animals. Do you want your fruits and vegetables grown in human remains.

Think about what is under your feet every single time you step on dirt. Do you have any idea what feeds our planet, what makes our plants grow? Every time you use chemicals on our plants you KILL off the things that feed our soil, the very things that nourish our food supply. We can make use of our waste or we can let it pollute our planet, the choice is ours to make. Sadly history points out that MOST of the time we make the WRONG choice.

I have a compost pile in my back yard. Leaves. Grass cuttings. Clippings from the vegetable garden. While I'm all for cremation and not taking up extra real estate after I go, I'm not sure Uncle Bob (may he compost in peace) would have been a good edition to the garden. Stacking bodies on the leaves would be problematic. It's hard enough to turn the piles every day as it is. So - I'm for it, provided there are regulations to keep things sanitary and avoid an Open Table invite to the local coyotes.

We can’t go burying bodies in our backyards or local parks. We need to treat the dead with respect and accountability. There are too many things that could go wrong, especially due to the nefarious actors among us. That being said, the current mortician / funeral / cemetery business is ripe for change to a less expensive, smaller real estate footprint, and earth friendlier process. My own preference is a cremation, and ashes placed in a small, above ground tomb along side my country’s military veterans.

Why not? That’s pretty much what happens when someone is buried in the ground anyway.

I don’t think this a good idea. This is how disease spreads if I remember right.

While I understand the env. impact would be positive, I can't support such a move. To me it would suggest that that person's life was not worth more than becoming fertilizer. I think a human being is due a bit more respect than that.

Treated properly human waist is a valuable rich resource. You can keep your toilet if you prefer but let’s figure out how to live on a regenerative new earth please. Thank you

Ashes to ashes...that’s exactly how I want my body to end up...doing something good..organ donor & compost!!!

This may be the stupidest idea ever. Considering the amount of people that died of the coronavirus and putting them in an open grave and as their bodies start to decay the virus gets in the water system or close to a river and there is flooding which washes the body Dow N the river. In New Orleans they have a cemetery that the body is placed on a board a put in a family Mausoleum and when the next family member dies they are placed on a board and put in on top of the previous dead body. This continues and as the bodies decay the space they use is now shrunk and room for additional bodies. All this might seem weird but they were running out of cemetery spaces. During Katrina the water in this cemetery went as high as 15 feet and the building was about 10-12 feet. Needless to say some bodies were found out of the graves some in pretty bad shape. It is just not a good idea.

Different strokes for different folks. This should to be a personal choice due to the wishes of the deceased or of their immediate family - and not subject to anyone else’s religious beliefs. Composting by nature uses aerobic bacteria and results in carbon nutrient rich material. Burying without treatment or composting would use anaerobic bacteria and is less efficient at producing carbon rich solid remains because much of the carbon goes into forming methane. I am not sure how acceptable this might be to neighbors of someone who was composting loved ones in their backyard. I guess there would have to be some regulations as well to prevent some people from using the 30 day cycle to simply compost away the evidence.