Bombus Composting

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Use code Vox for 20% off your first purchase. Bombus has been able to put over 75 million items of clothing into hands of people who need them. We're back this time with Tanya Marsh, a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law where she teaches funeral and cemetery law.

Remember you are dirt and to dirt you shall return. Science journalist Eleanor Cummins and law professor Tanya Marsh explain the rise of human composting, now legal in six states, as an alternative to burial or cremation.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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