When it is the time for us to leave this earth our family would have to make decision either cremation or burial. However there is another alternative for us return to asses/dust i.e. human composting. In nature of course this composting would naturally occur. Decomposition is just one part of any circle of life (and death) where molecules are recycled into the next life. But of course this human composting is a novel thing in modern life.
Recompose provides services of human composting (technically: natural organic reduction, NOR). The Recompose process takes 30 days in a vessel full of wood chips and straw, then another few weeks in “curing bins,” large boxes (one per person) where soil is allowed to rest and continue exhaling carbon dioxide. Once that process is complete, friends and chosen family can either retrieve the soil themselves, or donate it to an ecological restoration project. The state requires Recompose to test for pathogens in the resulting soil, as well as heavy metals, including arsenic, lead and mercury. Recompose costs $5,500. According to a 2020 price survey , cremation prices in Washington state - where Recompose is situated- vary in the range of $525-$4,165 and burial from $1,390 for the most frugal, direct, no-service burial to $11,100 for a complete, high-end funeral service.
Colorado is the second state in the US after Washington to allow human body composting. The company's name is The Natural Funeral. The process (6 months) takes longer than what Recompose does. The Natural Funeral charges $7,900 for body composting, compared with $2,200 for flame cremation, and Viddal notes that a traditional burial and service in the Denver area can run well north of $10,000.
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