{"id":1793962,"date":"2023-01-03T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1793962"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:05:21","slug":"new-york-legalizes-human-composting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-legalizes-human-composting\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Legalizes Human Composting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-legalizes-human-composting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1793962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2023-01\/Compost.jpg?h=dc556ccc&#038;itok=ngioRdIV\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>New York became the sixth state to legalize &#8220;human composting,&#8221; the practice of transforming bodies into soil that has raised concerns amongst religious groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul signed <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/NY\/text\/A00382\/2021\">legislation<\/a> over the weekend to add &#8220;natural organic reduction&#8221; alongside cremation and burial on the list of acceptable ways to lay human remains to rest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont and Washington have already legalized the practice, which <a href=\"https:\/\/recompose.life\/faqs\/\">proponents<\/a> tout as more environmentally friendly than burial or cremation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/recompose.life\/faqs\/\">Recompose<\/a>, a Seattle funeral home that offers human composting, describes the process as the &#8220;gentle transformation of a human body into soil.&#8221; This is done by placing bodies into stainless steel reusable vessels with wood chips, alfalfa and straw to decompose for at least six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Remaining tooth and bone fragments are ground into smaller parts and the body is returned to family members as soil.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Catholic Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyscatholic.org\/statement-on-gov-hochul-signing-legislation-permitting-human-composting\/\">condemned<\/a> the new burial legislation, stating on Monday that bishops &#8220;regret&#8221; that Hochul has signed the legislation and &#8220;do not believe the process meets the standard of reverent treatment of earthly remains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Catholic Conference Executive Director Dennis Poust said burial is preferred while cremation and burial is considered an acceptable alternative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just as Church teaching prohibits the scattering or dividing of cremated remains, it would not permit the spreading of composted human remains co-mingled with other organic matter to fertilize a garden,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In Islam and Judaism, bodies are washed, shrouded and buried as quickly as possible without embalming. Grinding bones, such as in the composting and cremation processes, is forbidden by leaders in both religions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea of \u2018utilizing\u2019 a body as a growth medium is anathema to the honor due to a vessel that once held a human spirit,&#8221;\u00a0Rabbi Avi Shafran, an public affairs director at America&#8217;s top Orthodox group, Agudath Israel of America, told the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/news\/527817\/jewish-human-composting-rabbis-halacha-burial-cremation\/\">Forward<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York became the sixth state to legalize &#8220;human composting,&#8221; the practice of transforming bodies into soil that has raised concerns amongst religious groups.\u00a0 Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation over the weekend to add &#8220;natural organic reduction&#8221; alongside cremation and burial on the list of acceptable ways to lay human remains to rest.\u00a0 California, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1793965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,12939,5576,13079,3819,3859],"class_list":["post-1793962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-composting","tag-human","tag-legalizes","tag-report","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}