The largest center for human composting in the U.S. just opened in Maryland and it’s highlighting how Americans are rethinking how they want to dispose of their bodies when they die.
Human composting is a roughly month-long process that turns humans into nutrient rich dirt using bacteria, fungi and mulch.
In the end, about three hundred pounds of soil is leftover.
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