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Urban Death Project: Composting Corpses

Would you sign up to have your postmortem body composted? That’s the question I posed to my Politics of Environmental Health students after reading this NYT piece on the Urban Death Project. About a third of the class was open to it; a few were pretty grossed out. We discussed how, like most ambitious, radical […]

April 15, 2015 Environmental Health Intersections

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