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What Will Happen to You After You Die? Have You Considered “Human Composting?”
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to “Fluffy Soil”
Human composting is a process in which, after you die, your loved ones can give your body to a company that will put you in a container, mix in wood chips, alfalfa and straw and then pump in oxygen.
According to the New Yorker, after a month of this, your corpse will yield about a cubic yard of “fluffy soil” which will be delivered to your loved ones.
If your family doesn’t want the fluffy soil version of you? It can be donated to a conservation group.
Human Composting uses just an eighth of the energy that cremation does. (And costs $5,000.)
Your transformation will happen way quicker than during an ordinary burial. And it doesn’t just turn you into soil. Soil is meh. But fluffy soil? Who wouldn’t want to journey through eternity in the form of fluffy soil?
Well, apparently some of my friends. When I posted about Human Composting on Facebook, they shared their own post-life plans:
I plan to be buried in a shroud that’s been seeded with mushroom spores for quicker decomposition.
I want to donate my organs, then have the rest of me sent to The Body Farm.
