""I genuinely didn't think there was anything left to surprise me in the death service world, until we went to a human composting facility.""
""It felt like being immersed in summer. I was surrounded by natural organic materials. It smelt good. And I realised at that moment that my body was not going to be disposed of, but rather transformed.""
""Of all the ways I've seen death handled around the world, this felt the most natural, the most honest - and the most hopeful.""
Human composting, or terramation, involves placing a deceased body in a sealed vessel with organic matter, transforming it into soil over weeks. This method is not yet legal in the UK, but a government consultation is forthcoming. Hughes, a former mortuary technician, visited a human composting facility in Washington, where he experienced the process firsthand. He described it as a natural and hopeful way to handle death, emphasizing the transformation of the body into fertile soil for families to use in memory of their loved ones.
Read at www.bbc.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]