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The most eco-friendly burial option isn’t cremation or human composting

The most eco-friendly burial option isn’t cremation or human composting

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Perhaps one of life’s hardest tasks is deciding what to do with a loved one’s—or even your own—bodily remains. Do you go the cremation route? What about human composting or a green burial? What’s the easiest option? But then, what’s the best option for planet Earth? If you want your last act on Earth to also be good for the Earth, what do you do?  Well, in a new episode of Popular Science’s Ask Us Anything podcast, we explore just that. We break down all the details around what’s the most eco-friendly burial option, from aquamation to conventional burials. Ask Us Anything answers your most outlandish, mind-burning questions—from the everyday things you’ve always wondered to the bizarre things you never thought to ask. So, yes, there’s a reason we can’t launch all our trash into the sun and no, drinking cold water isn’t bad for you. If you have a question for us, send us a note. Nothing is …