A Historic Cemetery Needs a Plan B

(This content was created with the help of AI.) One of the nation’s oldest cemeteries is turning to one of the newest forms of burial: human composting.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is teaming with the German company Meine Erde (My Earth) to introduce “natural organic reduction.” The process will sound familiar to those acquainted with green burials:

The cemetery is starting with 18 vessels in the hope of solving a problem confronting cemeteries across the US: It’s running out of space…

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