Bung me in the bin. I'll write it in my will. Composting a corpse is the new way to go.
The idea is the brainchild of Katrina Spade of the Urban Death Project who says: "The deceased are folded back into the communities where they have lived as the great potential of our bodies to grow new life is celebrated." Nicely put.
What she means is that the dead are wrapped in linen and dropped into a three-storey high concrete box then topped off with sawdust and woodchips to keep the smell down. After a few weeks relatives can claim a cubic yard of compost, or give it to farms.
It's a great idea. In this age of recycling it's incredible no one has thought of it before. It frees up our land for the living and helps the grass grow while saving 4 million acres of trees we cut down to make coffins. Count me in.
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