Fancy being placed in a sealed metal vessel with a mix of straw, wood chips and alfalfa and rotated for thirty days?

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Your body will decompose naturally and non-organic material will be purged.

An example of vessel used in human composting. Picture by American Mortuary

Decomposition will continue for another month until you become nutrient-rich soil to be returned to the earth to nurture new plant life.

That's what advocates of human composting are proposing in NSW.

They want the practice of turning bodies to soil to be a "meaningful deathcare option" on par with burials or cremat

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