Californians love to claim how they want to safe the earth from global warming and stuff. Now, they can literally be turned into compost after they die thanks to AB 351 which was signed signed by Newsom. Since California’s power grid can’t handle people charging their electric cars, you can “help the earth” by allow the state to place the deceased body in an 8-foot steel box surrounded by biodegradable materials like wood chips.
Ashes to ashes, dust to … dirt?
Californians looking to honor the Earth even after death will soon be able to choose to have their remains composted in the Golden State.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Sunday that will allow human compost burials, or natural organic reduction (NOR), in the state beginning in 2027.
Assembly Bill 351, introduced by Assemblymember Cristina Garcia, frames the organic decomposition of human remains into soil as an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional burial methods.
“With climate change and sea-level rise as very real threats to our environment,” Garcia said in a statement in June, “[NOR] is an alternative method of final disposition that won’t contribute emissions into our atmosphere.”