Terramation - Return Home - Human Composting

[Stryder50]

I recently came across this concept. It seems an interesting alternative to just being placed into a box buried in the ground, or burnt up~cremation.

My youngest son (37yo) had a friend of his from school days pace away recently due to cancer, and this is how his bodily remains are being handled.

Concept has merit, IMO, aside from relative costs, but also in being enviro friendly and sort of positive way to give back or "pay forward".
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What Is Terramation and How Does It Affect the Death Care Industry?​

Technology and new concepts are constantly shaping the world around us, and it’s no different within the death care industry. Until now, when many of us thought about death we had two choices to decide between, burial and cremation. One of the new concepts being developed is terramation, or converting human remains into nutrient-rich soil. How could this shape the death care industry in the future?

What Is Terramation?​

Return Home is an innovative company that is streamlining the natural organic process, or terramation. Many adults are now interested in environmentally-friendly ways of being buried and the opportunity to utilize a method that is different from burial and cremation. For decades these have been the primary options available, and terramation brings something new to the death care industry that is attractive to adults both young and old. Instead of the term “human composting,” which the founder finds to be off-putting for many people, terramation helps emphasize our return to the earth.

Where Can Terramation Be Performed?​

Because this process must be legalized before the death care industry can participate, Washington is currently the only state where it is possible. As interest continues to spike with Washington residents, death care industry businesses can expect to see it spread. Currently, Return Home can transform 72 bodies per month into soil. For one body, the process takes about two months. The average 200 lb body will produce 500-600 pounds of soil that can be transferred to the family. The more adults who are interested, the more that the business will expand to meet the demand.

Now is the time for the death care industry to prepare for these alternative methods of burial and decomposition. The soil produced through terramation is incredibly rich and almost fertilizer-like, and families who are signed up for the process plan on taking the soil home to place in a favorite garden, to use around the house or even to transport it and distribute it in a forest that has meaning. Terramation is one of many changes coming to the death care industry, and a particularly exciting one.
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What Is Terramation | Death Care Accountant MD | MKS&H

What is terramation and how does it affect the death care industry? Find out how this new form of burials is transforming the industry!

mksh.com

 

[Stryder50]

First large-scale, human composting facility in the world will open in Auburn​

“It’s what nature meant us to do. We just do it faster.”
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Returning the human body to the earth without flames or chemicals.

Such has been a long desired alternative to pumping formaldehyde into a loved one, encasing them in a concrete vault reinforced with rebar and burying them in a six foot deep hole.

Or to reducing one’s once-larger-than-life mama or papa, sister, brother or dear friend to a handful of grey ashes.

At last, technology, time and the law have aligned to allow what some once might have considered a fantasy of aging hippies to become reality, poised to reform and rock the death care industry.

As soon as April or mid-May 2021, Return Home, the first, large-scale “terramation” — human composting — facility ever built in the world, opens in an 11,500-square-foot warehouse on Auburn’s north end, with 72 vessels that can transform 72 bodies per month into soil at 30 times the rate of ground burial.

To bring “sustainable disposition to the mainstream,” said Return Home’s CEO and founder, Micah Truman.

At the outset, Return Home’s approach is no different than traditional burial or cremation. When someone has died, it’s usually family or friends who reach out, and people are highly directed in what they want to do. For example, last week, Return Home got a call from people in Los Angeles who were unwilling to use a crematorium and had already heard about Return Home.
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First large-scale, human composting facility in the world will open in Auburn | Auburn Reporter

“It’s what nature meant us to do. We just do it faster.”

www.auburn-reporter.com

 

[progressive hunter]

I recently came across this concept. It seems an interesting alternative to just being placed into a box buried in the ground, or burnt up~cremation.

My youngest son (37yo) had a friend of his from school days pace away recently due to cancer, and this is how his bodily remains are being handled.

Concept has merit, IMO, aside from relative costs, but also in being enviro friendly and sort of positive way to give back or "pay forward".
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

What Is Terramation and How Does It Affect the Death Care Industry?​

Technology and new concepts are constantly shaping the world around us, and it’s no different within the death care industry. Until now, when many of us thought about death we had two choices to decide between, burial and cremation. One of the new concepts being developed is terramation, or converting human remains into nutrient-rich soil. How could this shape the death care industry in the future?

What Is Terramation?​

Return Home is an innovative company that is streamlining the natural organic process, or terramation. Many adults are now interested in environmentally-friendly ways of being buried and the opportunity to utilize a method that is different from burial and cremation. For decades these have been the primary options available, and terramation brings something new to the death care industry that is attractive to adults both young and old. Instead of the term “human composting,” which the founder finds to be off-putting for many people, terramation helps emphasize our return to the earth.

Where Can Terramation Be Performed?​

Because this process must be legalized before the death care industry can participate, Washington is currently the only state where it is possible. As interest continues to spike with Washington residents, death care industry businesses can expect to see it spread. Currently, Return Home can transform 72 bodies per month into soil. For one body, the process takes about two months. The average 200 lb body will produce 500-600 pounds of soil that can be transferred to the family. The more adults who are interested, the mooo
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Now is the time for the death care industry to prepare for these alternative methods of burial and decomposition. The soil produced through terramation is incredibly rich and almost fertilizer-like, and families who are signed up for the process plan on taking the soil home to place in a favorite garden, to use around the house or even to transport it and distribute it in a forest that has meaning. Terramation is one of many changes coming to the death care industry, and a particularly exciting one.
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What Is Terramation | Death Care Accountant MD | MKS&H

What is terramation and how does it affect the death care industry? Find out how this new form of burials is transforming the industry!

mksh.com

good ole pine box will do the same thing,,
nowadays they make you use a concrete box,,

 

[Stryder50]

Return Home’s human composting service gently transforms human remains into rich, fertile soil​

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Green Funeral Home | Human Composting - Return Home

Return Home is a green funeral home specializing in human composting. We gently transform human remains into rich, fertile soil. Learn more.

www.returnhome.com

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Return Home Launches 'Human Composting' Alternative to Burial and Cremation in Washington State​

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SEATTLE, April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Return Home, the world's first large-scale Terramation™ (human composting) facility is delighted to announce the launch of Preturn Home, a pre-purchase plan that allows people to be terramated when they die.

The company's proprietary Terramation™ service transforms human remains into soil within 60 days and takes place inside a sealed, environmentally controlled vessel.

Return Home's Terramation™ Pre-Purchase Plan starts at $4,950 and is backed by United Heritage Insurance.

"In buying Preturn Home, our customers can rest easy knowing that their last act on the planet will be to give back rather than pollute it," said Micah Truman, CEO and founder of Return Home.

Terramation comes with cost advantages. The national price of cremation ranges from $4,000 to $7,000, while the average cost of a funeral and burial is $7,360, according to 2021 data from the National Funeral Directors Association.

Promising future impact

Washington legalized Terramation™ as a method of disposition in May 2020, and is the first state in the nation to do so. California, Colorado and New York appear close to ratification as well, with legislative approval expected for all three states in 2022.

Each year, the funeral industry releases 30 million board feet of wood, 1.6 million tons of concrete and 750,000 gallons of embalming fluid into the earth because of burial. One cremation burns approximately 30 gallons of fuel, or enough to drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back.

"The current funeral industry is destroying our planet," said Truman. "Terramation™ provides peace of mind for you and your loved ones, knowing that your last act is to give back."
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Return Home Launches 'Human Composting' Alternative to Burial and Cremation in Washington State

/PRNewswire/ -- Return Home, the world's first large-scale Terramation™ (human composting) facility is delighted to announce the launch of Preturn Home, a...

www.prnewswire.com

 

[fncceo]

Yummy!

 

[Stryder50]

^^^ "yummy" comes after you've grown things in it. ;-)

 

[Stryder50]

A couple more, related and/or recent articles ...
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Washington is 1st state to allow composting of human bodies​

By GENE JOHNSONMay 21, 2019

Washington is 1st state to allow composting of human bodies

SEATTLE (AP) — Ashes to ashes, guts to dirt. Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation Tuesday making Washington the first state to approve composting as an alternative to burying or cremating human remains.

apnews.com

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We Need a Greener Way to Die​

Most of us will keep polluting post-mortem.

We Need a Greener Way to Die

Most of us will keep polluting post-mortem.

getpocket.com

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Revolutionary Funeral Facility To Turn Humans Into Compost Is Now Open​

By Sara Barnes on February 10, 2021

Revolutionary Funeral Facility To Turn Humans Into Compost Is Now Open

Instead of simply burying someone, this company lets you turn their bodies into eco-friendly compost. Would you do this?

mymodernmet.com

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Competition emerges in the Seattle-area human-composting funeral business​

Sep. 30, 2020 at 6:00 am Updated Sep. 30, 2020 at 9:03 am

Competition emerges in the Seattle-area human-composting funeral business

For years Seattle-based Recompose has been the only funeral home proposing to offer natural organic reduction (NOR), more commonly known as "human composting, as an alternative to burial and cremation. Now competitors have emerged, including Return Home in Auburn and...

www.seattletimes.com

 

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I think it stinks. In fact, it rots.