Corpses to crops ?

I just read this & thought it's most interesting, why haven't it been done earlier? In Seattle, a local nonprofit group wants to become the world's first organization to offer as a service human composting, in which the departed are turned into nutrient-rich soil that can be used to grow flowers, trees or food.

The Urban Death Project is the brainchild of Seattle architect Katrina Spade, who came up with the concept in 2011. Spade calls composting a meaningful, sanitary and ecological alternative to burial and cremation.  But the project has significant legal and regulatory hurdles to surmount before it can get under way.

The project would need to obtain a license to operate a funeral home, tackle local zoning restrictions, which require composting facilities to be outside populated areas. But before those issues can be addressed, the group and its proponents would have to push through a change to state law, which requires that all human remains be buried, cremated, donated to science or transferred out of state. At a minimum there would need to be a change in state law.

Bodies would be refrigerated on site for up to 10 days. No embalming would be necessary, since decomposition is the goal. After a ceremony - religious or not - friends and family would help insert the body into the core. Over several weeks a body would turn into about one cubic yard of compost, enough to plant a tree or a patch of flowers. The compost could be taken by the family or left for use or donation by the Urban Death Project.

But would people want this option? Does the prospect of feeding an apple tree in post-life appeals to you? Would you eat the apples after? And why not ?