With Human Composting, Death Goes ‘Green’ – By Kaia Hubbard (US News) / Nov 17 2021
Colorado is the latest state to approve body composting, billed as the environmentally friendly alternative to cremation or burial.
At The Natural Funeral, a “holistic funeral home” in Lafayette, Colorado, nothing is off the table and nothing is too broad for the conversation, according to co-founder Seth Viddal.
“We really want families’ needs to be heard,” he says. “And so we try and give people what is meaningful to them and death care, as opposed to something that’s prescriptive and commodified in the conventional industry.”
That’s why in late September, The Natural Funeral performed what its founders believe to be Colorado’s very first human composting in the state, after the practice became legal earlier in the month.
Body composting, also referred to as natural organic reduction, first became legal in Washington last year in what appears to be the start of a growing trend. In September, Colorado became the second state to allow human composting, while in Oregon the process will be legal starting next summer.
