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Senate committee hears emotional testimony on SB 84 to legalize natural organic reduction; some funeral directors oppose
Summary
Lawmakers heard emotional testimony for and against SB 84, a bill to authorize natural organic reduction (often described as human composting) as a regulated disposition option provided by licensed funeral establishments.
Senate Business and Labor heard extended testimony on SB 84, which would add natural organic reduction (NOR) as a regulated disposition option available through licensed funeral providers.
Sponsor Senator Plumb said the proposal mirrors earlier language used for alkaline hydrolysis and would restrict the practice to licensed funeral establishments using contained systems. Proponents described NOR as a contained, microbial process that returns transformed human remains to a…
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