Hey, are you on speakerphone or are you on regular phone?

I'm on regular phone.

Is that side in? I'm Nate Hedgy and this is my friend Felicia Cecilia.

Oh, I'm stop boiling the water.

Felicia lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

But a few months ago, she was visiting my wife and I in Montana.

We were on a run.

I don't know how we started talking about it. But I think I don't know we were thinking about death.

Death specifically burials cremation and you're talking about ashes being spread and I was like well there's also the option to be composted.

Yeah, you heard that right human composting.

Felicia guessed that composting a body has to be better than burning it and sending CO2 into the atmosphere.

You know, there's minerals in your body that could be especially be useful for the ecosystem, but I don't really know.

So what's better for the environment and our planet's soil?

Cremation, burial, human composting? I didn't know the answer, but I knew exactly who to call.

Hello, Nate Hedges. Hey, buddy, how you doing?

Producer Felix Poon.

You're like our resident Deathbeat reporter, right?

Like how many episodes have you done about death now?

I think I have to count, right?

So there was a, there's a decomposing squirrel story,

there was the body farm story,

the suicidal story.

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