Compostez-moi

Gazelle Gaignaire Belgium 2024 87 min.

What if, after we take our last breath, we could transform our bodies into fertile soil, to nourish life and become a tree? In Europe, the demand to study, validate and legalise the composting of human remains is getting increasingly louder. In the United States, this alternative to cremation and burial is already practised in two states. Slowly, a still unfamiliar and controversial movement is gaining ground.

Within the funeral world, pioneers are breaking taboos. Starting from an ecological awareness, they want to offer a different vision on death, namely one that regenerates life. Is composting, in which human remains can be turned into soil improvers in a matter of weeks, a worthy alternative funeral method? A beautiful way to not only conclude a life, but also to rejoin the never-ending cycle of life? As a voluntary, intergenerational gift from the dead back to the living?

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