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https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/california-legalizes-human-composting-17374470.php

There are traditionally two options for what to do with a body after death: burial or cremation.

In California, a third choice will soon present itself for those who shuffle off this mortal coil. That choice is human composting.

The process of composting a cadaver, already legalized in Washington, Colorado and Oregon, involves placing the body in a reusable container, surrounding it with wood chips and aerating it to let microbes and bacteria grow. After about a month, the remains will decompose and be fully transformed into soil. Companies such as Recompose in Washington offer the service at a natural organic reduction facility.

Unlike cremation, the process avoids the burning of fossil fuels and emission of carbon monoxide. National Geographic estimates that cremations in the U.S. alone emit about 360,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year



Assembly Bill 351, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday, will allow residents to choose human composting, or natural organic reduction (NOR), after death starting in 2027

fuck climate change and those who profits from this scam. they want to reduce you to zero

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Bruce-Lee-A-Life-by-Matthew-Polly-13037742.php


Figures.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dixie-Fire-Gary-Maynard-arson-Lassen-County-16378399.php

@KatHarzso I thought of you when I saw this story since you've been covering the Dixie and Lassen fires. If he's found guilty this piece of shit should be executed.

Pic of the guy: https://files.catbox.moe/gtsqic.jpg


From the article:

Authorities launched an investigation of Maynard on July 20, and when he was stopped by police in Susanville on Aug. 3, a U.S. Forest Service agent placed a tracking device under his car, the Bee said.

"Over the course of the last several weeks, Maynard has set a series of fires in the vicinity of Lassen National Forest and Trinity National Forest," Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Anderson wrote in a detention memo, the Bee said. "... The area in which Maynard chose to set his fires is near the ongoing Dixie Fire, a fire which is still not contained despite deployment and efforts of over 5,000 personnel."

EDIT:

New info: https://www.viportal.co/news/former-college-professor-accused-of-setting-fires-near-dixie-fire/

"He entered the evacuation zone and began setting fires behind the first responders fighting the Dixie fire. In addition to the danger of enlarging the Dixie fire and threatening more lives and property, this increased the danger to the first responders, ” the document alleges. “Maynard’s fires were placed in the perfect position to increase the risk of firefighters being trapped between fires."