How and where people can be burred in the US is a matter of state/local law. As much as the funeral industry wants you to think that upon death everyone must be sent to a funeral home, embalmed, placed in casket with an eye watering mark up and burred in a lined vault at a conventional cemetery you're not legally obligated to do any of that in most cases.
True, but at the same time you're also not allowed to just dig a hole in your backyard and bury them.
One thing that is worth discussing with the university system, if you have not already, is how the remains will be returned after they have been used. A family member donated their body to the local university system and the process went great other than that part. The ashes were mailed back without notice via regular mail. The family member who received it wasn't ready for the gut punch of being handed what was left of their grandfather in a box mixed in with the junk mail.
Or the opposite could happen and bodies of people who, during life, wanted to be buried go to research or transplants.
No, not so long as people of conscience oppose it, the right to make your own decision on what you do with your body Post death is yours, it's no one else's, and that is the right of it
People of conscience oppose all sorts of laws. It doesn't stop the law being enforced on them. I don't have to respect your conscience if it tells me that I should allow a human body to be compost for someone's lawn.
What do you imagine soil to be? It is composed of countless millions of living and dead things including countless humans buried or cremated long before funerary laws were enforced. Moreover I think you are interpreting 'composting' in a way other than it's intended meaning which simply refers to the breaking down of dead material including bodies.
Because I oppose the composting of human remains. I thought that was obvious.
