Keen to be sustainable after dying? Earth to earth, cradle to compost

Natural organic reduction, or human composting, is a process that turns human remains into soil. (Shutterstock)

Despite expanding legislation and increasing popularity, sustainable death care options are still relatively unknown.

Some say this is because death and death care — services for burying and cremating the dead — are taboo topics, and so not openly discussed. Others maintain society discourages us from discussing death.