A new wave of eco-friendly funeral options is gaining traction. Companies like Return Home and Recompose, led by Micah Truman, are offering human composting as a sustainable and personal alternative to traditional burials and cremations.
Blaire Van Valkenburgh was walking through the woods with lanterns dangling from both hands, visiting the dirt that used to be her husband. It was almost dark outside.
She strolled effortlessly through a maze of rocks and roots to a tiny glade that resembled a bowl and was barely visible from her kitchen window on Orcas Island, Washington. Robert Wayne, her husband of forty years, and she had intended to retire here. Subsequently, he received a pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
The place where friends and relatives had dumped seven burlap bags containing Wayne's mulch-like remains and scraped them into a dry, sprawling puddle beneath the trees months earlier was now surrounded by towering Pacific madrone trees and Douglas fir, appearing like...
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