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May 24, 2019

Digging Into ‘Recomposition’….Composting of Human Remains

KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk” interviewed David Sloane of the USC Price School about a new law in Washington state that will allow the composting of human remains. Would you be willing to consider…

January 26, 2019

Washington State Weighs New Option After Death: Human Composting

The New York Times quoted David Sloane of the USC Price School about the viability of legalized human composting. “It’s this interesting combination of environmental sensibility and individual choice,” David C. Sloane, a…

July 10, 2018

The End: Death, Cemeteries, and Remembering

by Anthony Orlando Though we are sad to bid farewell to “Our American Discourse,” we welcome the opportunity to talk about farewells—indeed, the hardest farewells of all: those that happen after…

April 4, 2018

Is the cemetery dead? Sloane examines new trends in ‘planning for death’

Inspired by his forthcoming book Is the Cemetery Dead?, Sloane was the featured speaker for the March 12 USC Price Conversation in New York, addressing Price alumni and current students, as well as SEO Scholars from local high schools. He gave a poignant, personal talk that encompassed changing American attitudes about cremation to how to support friends who are grieving.

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Digging Into ‘Recomposition’….Composting of Human Remains

Washington State Weighs New Option After Death: Human Composting

The End: Death, Cemeteries, and Remembering

Is the cemetery dead? Sloane examines new trends in ‘planning for death’

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