He would have wanted it this way
Well, it’s official. Washington’s governor has signed that freaky human composting funeral legislation that allows residents to recycle loved ones like Seattle requires food waste be composted.
This makes that zany, wet state the very first and quite possibly the very last to allow composting of human bodies instead of standard burial or cremation.
Our colleague Jazz Shaw wrote quite thoughtfully about this pioneering measure last month when it was just legislation. So, I don’t have to.
On Tuesday, Jay Inslee, one of the sizable posse of living Democrats who wants to recycle their political career into the presidency, actually signed the bill into law in the presence of numerous compost supporters, also still breathing.
“It gives meaning and use to what happens to our bodies after death,” asserted Nora Menkin, a supporter and funeral advocate.
