{"id":142903,"date":"2022-07-26T16:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/americas-first-funeral-home-for-composting-human-remains-is-open-for-business"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:23:39","slug":"americas-first-funeral-home-for-composting-human-remains-is-open-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/americas-first-funeral-home-for-composting-human-remains-is-open-for-business","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s First Funeral Home for Composting Human Remains Is Open for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/americas-first-funeral-home-for-composting-human-remains-is-open-for-business2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Death comes to all of us, and it\u2019s never easy. If cemeteries and funeral homes don\u2019t give you warm fuzzies, then consider instead having your body covered in soil and bacteria so it can be composted into mulch.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a human remains becoming rich soil that can lead to new life seems \u2014 oddly refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>After a decade of planning and fundraising and a successful bid to change Washington state law, Recompose, a composting funeral home, is finally open for business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death comes to all of us, and it\u2019s never easy. If cemeteries and funeral homes don\u2019t give you warm fuzzies, then consider instead having your body covered in soil and bacteria so it can be composted into mulch. The idea of a human remains becoming rich soil that can lead to new life seems \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}