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Human Composting aka Terramation is the transformation of human remains into soil. Would you consider a green burial for yourself or your loved ones? #earthday #foraliving

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00:00I wish that people knew how harmful the current offerings can be to both environment and operator.
00:07We don't use near the energy that a cremation uses.
00:11We don't use the hardwoods and metals that caskets for burials use.
00:15So our process is actually two phases.
00:18The first phase happens here in this vessel, and it's the body making its transformation
00:22into soil.
00:23That's about a 30-day process.
00:25We open the vessel, and what you have is beautiful soil.
00:28But bone remains, and those are broken down into about two-inch pieces that then go back
00:33into the compost, so that the microbes can get at the inside of those bones and break
00:37them down completely over the second 30 days.
00:39After the body decomposes completely, there's about 200 pounds of soil left.
00:44When I pass, it is the only option that I will choose.
00:48I have been witness to the other options, I have participated in the other options, and
00:53there is nothing that sits with my soul as well as terramation does.
00:57I've covered almost 20 years.
00:58I've got a baby 60-day talk.
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