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In a head-turning move at the Idaho state legislature this session, the topic of human composting came up from Representative Heather Scott, who mentioned it when speaking in support of

  I trust that artist Rhim Lee is a visionary and all around great person, but I was a bit surprised when her TED talk had almost 1.5 million views. She is a talented speaker, funny and full of energy; her “Great Idea Worth Spreading” is a “mushroom suit” that would help nature extract our…

THE MUSHROOM BURIAL SHROUD that covered Luke Perry’s face and famous forehead was black as night, or perhaps it was white as bone, made of organic cotton,

The Mushroom Burial Suit is designed to give our dead bodies new life. HowStuffWorks looks at the science.

Dying can be hard on the environment. If youre buried, youre going to be pumped full of litres of toxic embalming fluid, which will soon leach out of your corpse and then out of your casket, which will most likely be stored for posterity in a cemetery that uses tons of pesticides and astronomical amounts of water to keep it looking nice. If youre cremated, your body will be incinerated in an oven for between three and four hours at temperatures of around 982 degrees Celsius. It takes about 105 ...