Interesting that one post saw this as an especially disrespectful method of handling remains suitable only for society's outcasts. Most methods of handling human remains are distasteful in their details, involving as they do, the end of our precious (not meant ironically) lives. The standard embalming, casket and vault burials involve a lot of formaldehyde that collectively make many cemeteries somewhat like toxic waste sites. I think people could come to see composting as a reverent and honorable way to handle remains of loved ones, though I am not certain they will. It's expensive, somewhere between cremation and coffin-and-vault burial. The one upside is that by the time this decision has to be made for each of us, we won't be concerned. I don't find it any better or worse than the other available options, just enough different to upset some.