A growing number of Americans are choosing to return to earth after death--literally. During human composting, the body is placed in a specialized polycarbonate vessel that's eight feet long, three and a half feet wide, and three and a half feet tall. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. As Halloween draws near, images of burials gone wrong can easily become horror movie fare: hands bursting from the ground; the creaky, cobwebbed casket containing a rotting corpse; the unraveling mummy freed from its sarcophagus. But what if human remains could be as nonthreatening as a nice bag of garden soil or a peaceful woodland hike?