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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

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 you're buried, you're 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 you're 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 litres of fuel to incinerate a single human body, and the process releases carbon monoxide, soot ...