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Resident raises human-composting option and local cemetery concerns during public comment
Summary
A resident urged the council to consider sustainable end-of-life options, including soil-based natural organic reduction ('human composting'), and flagged local cemetery maintenance and the potential impacts of a Delaware Water Gap national-park designation on Smithfield Township.
During general public comment, a resident (Committee member [S5] in the transcript) described recent reporting on state-level proposals and raised two topics for the council’s attention: possible effects if the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area were redesignated as a national park, and a presentation on emerging 'human composting' services now legal in Pennsylvania.
The commenter said the national-park designation could increase tourism and traffic through township roads and urged the council to monitor proposals. On end-of-life options, the speaker described the soil-based natural organic reduction approach, said it is legal in Pennsylvania, offered to share resources and estimated costs roughly in the low thousands. "It is perfectly legal in Pennsylvania," the speaker said of the composting option and offered to send a link to the company.
