Fancy being rotated in alfalfa for 30 days? Human composting a new 'deathcare option'

Fancy being placed in a sealed metal vessel with a mix of straw, wood chips and alfalfa and rotated for thirty days?

Your body will decompose naturally and non-organic material will be purged.

Decomposition will continue for another month until you become nutrient-rich soil to be returned to the earth to nurture new plant life.

That's what advocates of human composting are proposing in NSW.

They want the practice of turning bodies to soil to be a "meaningful deathcare option" on par with burials or cremation.

Human Composting, also known as Terramation or Natural Organic Reduction (NOR), is currently legal in 13 states in the USA and also in Germany.

A petition to the NSW parliament to recognise, legislate and regulate the practice has accumulated more than 500 signatures since it