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The options for disposing of human remains in Illinois are limited. You can be buried, entombed or cremated. But a bill would add another option: composting.
Scott Reeder writes about legislation that just passed the Illinois House that would allow human bodies to be turned into compost.
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A proposal would legalize and regulate “natural organic reduction,” a process in which human remains are rapidly decomposed into compost.