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Instead of a store… Human composting on the rise in the US

If you don’t like the store or makeup. Following Washington state, Colorado also had to wait for the governor’s signature as a bill to legalize corpse composting, or composting, was passed by Congress.

Katrina Spade, who studied cultural anthropology at university and majored in architectural design, drew attention when she presented her ideas at TED with her master’s thesis on the topic of places where the city corpses sleep. Until then, the law had not been revised, but the state of Washington showed understanding and legalized it in 2019. From January of this year, a Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) facility was opened to provide a service to compost the body for 30 days at the level of burial and cremation. are doing

According to a TED report, close to 50% of Americans choose a store. Funeral home staff extracts the body fluids, replaces them with a preservative that keeps the body fresh for a long time, puts them in a coffin, and burials them in a concrete-enclosed cemetery. If you collect all the metals used in cemeteries in the United States, you can build the Golden Gate Bridge. When wood is collected, 1,800 detached houses are built, and when formaldehyde used for embalming treatment is collected, it is equivalent to eight Olympic swimming pools. Moreover, there is now a worldwide shortage of cemeteries.

Of course, the makeup ratio is on the rise recently. Because it is simple, inexpensive, and good for the environment. However, the process of burning the body requires considerable energy and pollutes the air. Cremation in the United States releases 270 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually. It is poison to the earth in the last moments of life. This means that the current burial method is a method that cannot be decomposed naturally.

However, if you leave the body alone, it will be transformed into soil with the power of microorganisms. Dairy farmers are practicing Livestock Mortality Composting. Animals are rich in nitrogen, so they decompose by covering them with carbon-rich ones. Microorganisms are aerobic, so you just need to give them an appropriate amount of coral and water. For example, if you cover a cow with a piece of wood and place it outdoors, the wind and rain will pour in, and after 9 months, it will become a nutrient-rich compost. For this reason, we want to build a composting system.

It is a place where a park, a funeral home and a cemetery are harmonized, and it is intended to be decorated as a place where humans are connected to the cycle of nature again. The infrastructure is simple. It covers the human body with chips of wood chips and turns it into dirt through rapid composting. Microorganisms and bacteria break down proteins and turn them into nutrient-rich soil. Related information can be found here.

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Through the monthly AHC PC and HowPC magazine era, he has watched 'technology age' in online IT media such as ZDNet, electronic newspaper Internet manager, editor of Consumer Journal Ivers, TechHolic publisher, and editor of Venture Square. I am curious about this market that is still full of vitality.

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