You know what? Good for them.
"With climate change and sea-level rise as very real threats to our environment, this is an alternative method of final disposition that won’t contribute emissions into our atmosphere," Garcia said in a statement after Newsom signed the bill into law.
Though it's not the first state to move towards legalizing human composting, California is home to pioneering "death-positive" activist and former Los Angeles funeral director Caitlin Doughty, whoseorganization has since 2011 spurred conversation surrounding the funeral industry and the harms it causes.
As both the Order of the Good Death and other human composting advocates have noted, the practice also has the added benefit of costing the same or less than other funerary options, median prices running $6,000 for the most bare-bones cremation and $7,200 or more for the cheapest casket funerals. By contract, human composting costs between $5,000 and $7,000, and the process that will be allowed in California — placing bodies in steel boxes with wood chips, flowers, and other biodegradable materials for one to two months before the body breaks down into soil that is then given to the deceased's loved ones — sounds much tidier than having a bunch of ashes sitting in one's home.
Beyond the reduction in both costs and emissions, human composting also offers families a chance to return their loved ones to the Earth.continue to change, so too will the way we handle our dead — and doing so in ways that can help, rather than harm, the planet while also feeling in touch with the organic matter around us does, indeed, sound like a "good death."
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