New York now becomes the sixth state in the U.S. to allow this process, which first includes Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, and California. The bill, A382, passed in the state senate in June and just now finally reached the Governor’s desk.
The WinePress reported on this process twice last year: once covering the first recorded terramation in Colorado, and the legalization of the process in California.
The process normally involves placing the corpse into a biodegradable coffin with layers of alfalfa, straw, and wood chips to aid in the decomposition process. When the process has been completed the soil can then be used for suitable growing soil.
Everything we can do to keep people away from concrete liners and fancy coffins and embalming, we should do and support.
Michelle Menter, manager of Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve in central New York, said. Menter said her company would strongly consider the method.
Cremation uses fossil fuels and burial uses a lot of land and has a carbon footprint.
For a lot of people, being turned into soil that can be turned into a garden or tree is pretty impressive.
Katrina Spade, the founder of Recompose, a green funeral home in Seattle that offers human composting, told the Associated Post
Hochul received opposition and support to pass the legislature, The Valley Voice reported. The New York State Catholic Conference implored their followers to force Hochul to veto the bill, arguing that the process “does not afford the respect due to remains.”
A process perfectly suited to returning vegetable scraps to Earth is not necessarily suited to the human body.
Dennis Poust, the organization’s executive director, said in a statement.
On the other side of the aisle the art collective Order of the Good Death called upon the governor to sign it, and sending commemorative postcards to her via Twitter.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[1] At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: [2] And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. [3] And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. Jeremiah 8:1-3
There is just no respect for life left in this country. It is full of murderers, evil beasts and wild dogs, and cannibals; to the point where people have not only long since tolerated cremation, but now are willing to allow their bodies be turned into compost. Just utterly sick.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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America is truly the great Satan.
Next, they’ll be processing dead bodies into food ingredients, and with this subtle but sure push for cannibalism, it can happen.
America is wicked, but she is not the great Satan….that’s Muslim propaganda & self-righteous idolatrous humanist presumption of those legalists who either deny sin or drown in desperation, turning to violent martyrdom to assure the salvation they can not be certain of on any other terms. Such as serve Satan in truth with their karmic Allah-Allat combination & distant, cruel God like unto that of the Augustinian nicolaitan ‘elect’ (just ask them), & the East’s yin/yang merging of darkness & light, elements of it all with Mohammed’s familiar spirit communing like unto Joseph Smith’s in the Mohammedan religion demanding blind submission to men & their system, and imposing it by terror, tyranny & empire building like all the rest of the Gentile nations who reject the word of God and/or wrest & re-craft it via philosophy & traditions of men, doctrines of devils ….all the while blaming others of so doing as does Rome, the head of all the cults & cage of every foul bird, including the capitulating & crony leaders of this nation, & all those following them & without excuse. They now merge & we all know that in ourselves, that is, in our flesh, there dwelleth no good thing, & apart from Christ & continuing in, & submitting to, the word: we’d be followers of Lucifer-Satan usurping the glory of God, serving the flesh & creating idolatries & false hopes like the impure Muslim paradise with its fleshy pornographic hope of eternal orgasm using objectified & eternally degraded women who become houri virgins over & over for their continual & perennial lust fulfillment….unto death & the real judgment when all willful ignorance, pride, illusion & delusion will either be burned away to the believers’ shame, or to eternal burning for the lost. Shades of carnality, Rome & temple Mormonism & all the cults.
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This was not the majority view of Americans, but the especially wicked & extreme nutjob in New York seizing power & lawless, a foolish woman & crony puppet. Jesus said offenses would come, but woe to that man by which they come.
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It’s sick…but the end of all those who follow the path of Romans 1 devolution unto judgment, worshipping & serving the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever, worshipping death as their evolutionary motivator. No one can say the judgment isn’t logical in a sick way, & consistent with their folly & hopeless idolatrous philosophy with the best they can hope for depersonalized merging with the elements of the universe, to become compost or an eternal rapist & conqueror in purely worldly & fleshly terms. They do not understand or know the shadow of the Godhead unity of man created in his image with soul, body and spirit…or the hope of the resurrection of the body yet to come.
You’ve got a very good point, kddlporter, but I’m just so sick and tired of America’s numerous evils. Some of the most vexing evils America is guilty of, and yet has the gall to call itself a “christian God-fearing nation?” If that’s true then I’m a pufferfish.
Even other nations, as wicked and Godless as they are, even reproach America for her many evils.
The biggest importer and exporter of the pornography epidemic is America.
The biggest murderer and abuser of children is America.
The most proud and boastful is, you guessed it: America.
It’s all coming to a head, soon. I’m so thankful that I’m repenting and the LORD has blessed me with a woman who also desires true repentance and salvation and the King James Bible as well, because the axe is about to fall, sister.