A Los Angeles lawmaker wants California to allow for human composting, an eco-friendly alternative to traditional burial or cremation in which the dead are turned into soil.
The state of Washington became the first state to allow human composting when Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signed a law last year permitting the practice.
“I would love to be a tree one day,” said Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), who introduced Assembly Bill 2592 to allow for human composting, or “natural organic reduction” as the upstart industry calls the proces. “I think this is about giving people another option.”
Washington’s law goes into effect on May 1, with a Seattle business called Recompose preparing to open a funeral home that offers the service in early 2021. Recompose’s process involves placing a body into a vessel with wood chips, alfalfa and straw, allowing it to be decomposed by microbes and reduced to a nutrient-dense soil in about a month.
The end result is about a cubic yard of soil per person, which is then returned to families or donated to conservation land for use.
The Catholic Church came out in opposition to the Washington law, saying that human composting doesn’t show proper respect for the dead. The newly introduced California bill has not yet been scheduled for a hearing in the state Capitol.
Full story at LA Times.
From her perspective, it probably makes some sense, she is already a fruit or nut of some sort. The Bell Gardens Democrat was a math teacher (who lied about having a doctorate), so it must somehow add up for her. Remember, math is racist (according to the Seattle school board).
But, seriously, pray for her. In 2015, when she was promoting death for the sick, she claimed to be Catholic and publicly opposed the California bishops. From an account at the time: “I know that some of my Catholic peers in this body are struggling with this bill,” Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) said during an emotional floor debate. “I want them to know that… you can continue to practice your faith without imposing it on those who do not practice the same faith with you.” And, let us pray that her bishop charitably, yet truthfully, speaks with her.
hmmm …… ain’t she gonna release
too much CO2 as she decomposes ???
Next up – “Soylent Green is People”.
Look it up.
I did look this up! “Soylent Green,” a sci-fi book and movie, with a story about a dystopian future set in New York City, in the year 2022–
with extreme overpopulation and extreme environmental problems– so they turn to a solution of feeding people rations of processed protein wafers– made out of (you guessed it!) murdered human beings! Cannibalism– worse than murdered animal meat for food!! One step beyond assisted suicide, now prevalent in Europe, the UK, and Canada! A nightmare worse than Hitler’s Holocaust, or the ISIS terrorists! Western culture tragically toppled into the ignorant, barbaric “Dark Ages” again, in the 1960s– with the violent, filthy “hippie movement!” Our Church urgently needs to re-evangelize the world, for Christ!
As I understand the ‘rules’ the Church permits cremation. In Europe, they ‘recycle’ burial plots after a number of years. At Ash Wednesday services, the rite basically said ‘you are dust and unto dust you shall return’
Are the Catholic Cemeteries afraid that, if this is much more accepted business will be hurt?
Cremation, though permitted, is not preferred (for theological and anthropological reasons, not financial ones).
What do you mean by the recycling of burial plots in Europe? What was/is done with the human remains? There are some tombs there, still in place, going back millennia.
Dust and ashes are not the same. (The ashes used on Ash Wednesday are, of course, from palms, not humans.)
I hope that helps. Yet, I’m still not sure what’s being said about European burial plots. And, are you referring to Christian burials?
What about Jewish cemeteries, in Europe?? Hitler cremated all his Jewish Holocaust victims, and the death camp crematoriums daily spewed ashes of cremated Jews into the atmosphere, poisoning the air for miles around! No respect for these poor Jewish Holocaust victims– nor for all the thousands of Catholic priests, and some Protestant ministers– who endured the same fate, in the death camps! No respect!
All the people who voted for this nutty bill are just as nutty. When are we going to stop feeding these pathological conditions and starting treating them?
How much disease will spread from these decomposed bodies into our food chain?
Year 2032:
Proposed legislation for “expedited” human composting:
a quick trip thru the wood chipper
Especially for the “deplorables,” persons over 60 years of age (with exceptions for some bona fide socialists) and those who have failed to capitulate to the cultural revolution. It’ll make “free” medical care more affordable and more rapidly reduce carbon footprints.
fertilizer policy as fiscal policy
No respect for God nor for Life, in the dehumanized, overly-secularized, immature, shallow, self-centered, Godless modern world!
Such a ghoulish idea, but no less than the other policies that are promoted by Progressives, I suppose. Completely predictable, this one, as the trajectory of reductio ad absurdam of the dignity of the human person has not yet hit bottom.