Soilent WHAT?

Denver Street Art   (Photo by 7mike5000) 

Tree huggers could one day be wrapping their arms around Aunt Bertha’s residue.

Colorado may soon be the second state to legalize “natural reduction,” which is the composting of human remains.  The thinking goes like this: Why burden Mother Earth with doctored bodies when we can transmute them into soil instead?

How so?  Simply place a corpse into a vessel containing wood chips and the like “while rotating the body every so often.”  Four weeks later, you’ve got yourself “an odorless soil.”

Washington State’s already on board, with Oregon and Delaware perhaps not far behind.  As State Representative Brianna Titone, recently pointed out, this would be a fine way to [quite literally] “give back to Colorado.”

Resources

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/550745-colorado-legislature-passes-bill-to-allow-human-composting

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