Compost Your Loved Ones

Published: Jan. 2, 2020, 9 a.m.

b'There aren\'t that many options for putting your loved ones to rest. There\'s burial. There\'s cremation. Now, later this year in Washington state, it\'ll be legal to compost a human body. Soil scientist Lynne Carpenter-Boggs tells us how the process works and why she describes it as "beautiful." Carpenter-Boggs is also a research advisor at Recompose, a human composting company in Washington. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

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