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City discovers greenest goodbye for the dead

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust - and corpses to crops?

In Seattle, a local nonprofit group wants to become the world's first organization to offer as a service human composting, in which the departed are turned into nutrient-rich soil that can be used to grow flowers, trees or food.

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