The man who wants to bring human composting to the UK

The man who wants to bring human composting to the UK 17 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google George Herd BBC Wales A demonstration human composting "vessel" for the deceased, decorated with flowers and compostable mementos, in the USA After decades working in mortuaries, a campaigner hopes to provide the UK's first human composting service as an alternative to cremation or burial. Human composting, also known as terramation, is when the body of a person who has died is placed in a sealed vessel containing organic matter. Over the course of several weeks, the body turns completely to soil. Terramation is not legal in the UK, but a consultation on the subject for the UK government by the Law Commission is due to be published imminently. Druid Kristoffer Hughes, who recently returned from the US where terramation is legal in several states , said he believed the practice could offer a "deeply ecological and spiritually meaningful" alternative to cremation or burial. This story contains details about human composting funeral services which some readers may find upsetting. Hughes, a broadcaster, author and leader of the Anglesey Druid Order, spent three decades working for coroners across the UK and abroad as a specialised mortuary technician. Those experiences led him to examine approaches to death across the world for the S4C documentary series Marw gyda Kris (Dying with Kris) . …