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Given the dwindling space for burials:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bisnow/2017/11/03/urban-cemeter...

and the energy/greenhouse gas emission costs of cremation, I can see this taking off.

There's a picture and caption not discussed in the text:

> Katrina Spade, upper left, the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company that hopes to use composting as an alternative to burying or cremating human remains, looks on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, as Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, centre, signs a bill into law at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., that allows licensed facilities to offer "natural organic reduction," which turns a body into soil in a span of several weeks. (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo)

Was Spade involved in bringing that legislation about?




The dwindling space for burials... In the middle of urban areas.


Not just urban areas. The swamp where I live is getting pretty full. It's getting harder harder to find a place to bury bodies.




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