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    California's dead will have a new burial option: Human composting

    by Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times Sep 19, 2022 2 minutes
    Return Home CEO Micah Truman shows a demonstration "vessel" for the deceased, decorated with flowers and compostable mementos on top of a bed of straw by Return Home, during a tour of the funeral home which specializes in human composting in Auburn, Washington on March 14, 2022.- Washington in 2019 became the first in the United States to make it a legal alternative...

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will begin allowing an alternative burial method known as human composting in 2027, under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday.

    Assembly Bill 351 by Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) will create a state regulatory process for natural organic reduction, a method in which

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