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Wed. 10/19 - The Rise of Human Composting, a Burial Alternative

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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A look into the growing movement of human composting as a funeral option. Plus, Anna May Wong quarters start shipping in the US on Monday. And two iconic movies with intriguing reboots on the horizon. Sponsor: Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/cool Links: Is Human Composting the Future of Funerals? (Slate) Inside one of the world’s first human composting facilities (The Verge) Return Home Terramation (TikTok) United States Mint to Begin Shipping Fifth American Women Quarters™ Program Coins October 24 (US Mint) Who is Anna May Wong, the first Asian American on U.S. currency? (Washington Post) HOLLYWOOD | Official Trailer (Netflix, YouTube) A celebration of Anna May Wong in 6 films (BFI) ‘Twister’ Sequel in the Works at Universal: What We Know (Vulture) Twisters sequel Forecast For Spring Start Universal, Amblin Finalizing Director For Sequel (Deadline) 'A Christmas Story Christmas' teaser gives us a glimpse of adult Ralphie (Mashable) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Subject to availability ends 14th of february it's wednesday october 19th

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2022 i'm jackson bird today a look into the growing movement of human composting as a funeral option

0:37.0

plus anime wong quarters start shipping in the u.s on of human composting as a funeral option.

0:42.1

Plus anime Wong quarters start shipping in the U.S. on Monday,

0:47.8

and two iconic movies with intriguing reboots on the horizon.

0:50.7

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. Composting kitchen scraps has been on a steep rise in recent years, but it's not the

0:59.8

only form of composting becoming more popular.

1:03.4

More and more people are choosing to compost their bodies after they die.

1:09.8

Journalist Eleanor Cummins recently spent some time with one of the leading

1:12.8

human composting, or natural organic reduction companies. It's something that I've heard about

1:19.3

in the past, but I didn't know too much about, and I found the inside look fascinating. So I wanted

1:24.8

to share some takeaways, but I do also want to acknowledge up front that this will be a full segment on death and funerals. So if you are not in a place to listen to that right now, please feel free to skip ahead to a little more than halfway through the episode. All right. So natural organic reduction or N-O-, dates back less than a decade, at least in this modern capacity.

1:49.2

First proposed by Katrina Spade in her 2013 graduate thesis, the concept was legalized in Washington State in 2019,

1:57.8

after Spade spent her post-grad years working with soil scientists, investors, and lobbyists to make that happen.

2:05.1

Today, NOR is legal in Washington, California, Colorado, Oregon, and Vermont. A bill legalizing it was

2:12.7

passed in New York's Senate, but it's been sitting with the governor for over a year, and

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