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Body and Soil: Exploring a Greener Alternative to Burial and Cremation
Body and Soil: Exploring a Greener Alternative to Burial and Cremation
Grave Matters19 Mar 24

Body and Soil: Exploring a Greener Alternative to Burial and Cremation

About the episode

It’s no secret that burial and cremation are environmentally unsustainable. So how can we dispose of bodies in new, climate-friendly ways? Alternatives to burial and cremation that have a lower carbon footprint are disrupting the funeral industry all over the world. This episode explores natural organic reduction, aka human composting or terramation. It's an emerging, greener alternative to the “big two”.