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A new business, being developed in Sweden, is described in a book called Stiff. The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, whose next to last chapter is entitled: Out of the Fire, into the Compost Bin and Other New Ways to End Up."
i LEARNED about ecological funerrals in Stiff. The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Norton, New York, 2003), loaned to me by my niece who read it when she took anatomy as a first-year medical student. The book is by Mary Roach, a journalist, who traveled the world to find out about methods of burial and uses of cadavers. She writes with a gentle and dignified humor. The next to last chapter is entitled, "Out of the Fire, Into the Compost Bin. And Other New Ways to End Up."
Ms. Roach states that the modern human compost movement is located on a tiny island of Sweden, Lyrön, due west of Gothenhurg. This is the home of Susanne Wiigh-Masak, who has founded a company called Promessa. It seeks...