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New Jersey legalizes human composting
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Posted By: JoElla Bee, 9/16/2025 10:16:19 PM

Living up to its name even in death. The Garden State approved a bill that legalizes human composting, an alternative to traditional burials in which a corpse is transformed into nutrient-rich soil that loved ones can use to feed their favorite houseplant or scatter like ashes. Human composting, more formally known as natural organic reduction, has skyrocketed in popularity after the COVID-19 pandemic left more than a million Americans dead.New Jersey is the 14th state to have legalized the practice over the last six years.

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Human composting is already legal in Washington, Oregon, Vermont, California, New York, Nevada, Arizona, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Maine, and Georgia, and now New Jersey.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Catherine 9/16/2025 10:18:53 PM (No. 2004881)
Oh my god. Even science fiction never went this far. People actually spread Aunt Gladys under their rose bushes? Nope. No can do.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JoElla Bee 9/16/2025 10:24:13 PM (No. 2004883)
FTA: With Earth Funeral, the deceased’s loved ones are in control even from across the country and can decide how much soil they’d like returned to them, ranging from a smidgeon to scatter similarly to cremated ashes or enough to comfortably house a potted plant. My question is what do the composters do with the remaining compost from the bodies that isn’t sent to the families? I’m skeptical that the compost companies would miss an opportunity to make $$$, if they could. Makes one want to reconsider buying organically grown vegetables!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: JoElla Bee 9/16/2025 10:26:28 PM (No. 2004884)
Sorry about the poorly worded sentence.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 9/16/2025 10:31:47 PM (No. 2004886)
Who knew human composting would bring about the zombie apocalypse. it could be the plotline for a cheap horror movie. Just have to laugh at the insanity.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: konocti95 9/16/2025 11:04:43 PM (No. 2004889)
Now we know what really happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: konocti95 9/16/2025 11:08:20 PM (No. 2004890)
Waiter! There's a finger in my Soylent Green.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Kate318 9/16/2025 11:09:43 PM (No. 2004891)
Covid did not leave over a million Americans dead, Caitlin, and this is gruesome. What’s next, Soylent Green?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Timber Queen 9/16/2025 11:14:43 PM (No. 2004893)
This is so wrong in so many ways. It reduces personhood to the same level as rotting vegetables...compost. Even ancient cultures knew enough to bury their dead with the meaningful objects of their lives. Primitive people knew human beings were different from the animals and plants; their deaths were meaningful. Much of the information we have regarding our human past comes from archeologists finding graves and studying the grave goods and burial practices. Even though cremation is acceptable to the Catholic Church, with the stipulation the "urned" ashes be buried or placed in a mausoleum, it's not my choice. I know many folks like to keep their loved one's ashes at home, but what of the long-term disposition of the ashes after the primary greaver also passes away? I know a woman who brings out "her husband" and places him on the baby-grand piano for every family celebration and holiday. I find that creepy. (She wants her corpse to be buried, and her husband's urn will be in her casket. Guess who ran that family?!)
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 9/16/2025 11:21:59 PM (No. 2004897)
This makes sense. We’re devolving in every other way. How we take care of our dead is just another nail in our civilization. Although, gardening with Aunt Mary seems preferable to having her as a nugget around my neck.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: NotaBene 9/17/2025 12:21:10 AM (No. 2004905)
The Doctors that brought US COVID forgot about the plague, anthrax, and smallpox. Pleas use that compost in your own vegetable gardens.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: wilarrbie 9/17/2025 12:42:15 AM (No. 2004907)
In my state one can have a family burial mini cemetery if own enough acres - like 10 or so. Often enough some farm properties have one that goes with the sale, some going way back to late1800s! I'm planning on cremation, but yeah, I'd go natural earth burial on my back 15. Never saw the sense of the sealed casket in a bunker, entombed forever long after anyone would care. Plant somethings for the hummingbirds. Yeah.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: JimBob 9/17/2025 12:59:33 AM (No. 2004910)
#5! #6! Good ones! #10, agree. What of any dangerous germs or 'pathogens' that might survive and re-infect other people? Plague, anyone? I have to admit that, on reading the title, my first thought was that I could nominate a few prominent 'Rats for immediate composting...... but given their nature, I doubt that anything would grow wherever their 'organic matter' was finally deposited.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: thefield 9/17/2025 1:20:12 AM (No. 2004917)
My wife would be more than happy to spread me.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: kono 9/17/2025 1:23:10 AM (No. 2004918)
Punctuating the lifelong denigration of the human body. One final indignity. Lord, have mercy.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: DVC 9/17/2025 2:31:25 AM (No. 2004926)
Disgusting and bizarre.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: NotaBene 9/17/2025 3:27:39 AM (No. 2004939)
The Medical Doctors of today are completely uneducated in Hygiene. DEI probably did it to them. Many pathogenic bacteria generate spores that are almost indestructible. The Germans centuries ago learned to bury dead cows to prevent entire fields of becoming infectious for decades. The brain takes the longest time to decompose. In the diseased state it can contain extremely stable proteins called prions that transmit spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease. In New Guinea, brain cannibalism spread Kuru prions that turned people mad after 15-40 years of incubation. Ebola does not have spores but it is transmitted by body remains, especially fluids. If any rats get into the human compost piles, and rats are everywhere, their fleas will pick up Yersinia pestis and transmit the bubonic plague, which we now have in California thanks to Illegal Aliens. Long ago the Roman Legions knew that latrines must be dug downstream of army encampments. For 200,000,000 years of existence humans kept the dead separated from the living. Cannibalism was not a successful lifestyle. Sorry for tha second post, but the deplorable status of Environmental Medicine and the AMA makes makes my blood boil.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: HisHandmaiden 9/17/2025 3:33:02 AM (No. 2004940)
The Good News, New Jersey, is that Scripture reminds Believers in the book of Romans, that we will be walking with Jesus in Heaven for eternity, riding beautiful white horses as Beloved Charlie Kirk no doubt is right now… Dear LDotters, if you don’t understand all this, may I lovingly encourage you to find a nearby Bible Church, visit it next Lord’s Day and take the time to sit down and talk with the Pastor or Elders. Jesus reminds us in the Gospel of John 14:6, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life… No one comes to the Father but by Me.’ TBIYTC
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