{"id":123572,"date":"2026-02-05T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123572\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:35:20","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-green-wood-cemetery-set-to-become-first-cemetery-in-state-to-offer-human-composting-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/123572\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Green-Wood Cemetery set to become first cemetery in state to offer human composting program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green-Wood Cemetery is moving forward to become the first cemetery in New York state to offer natural organic reduction.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional burial and cremation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the years go, by we\u2019ve evolved in different ways we remember people,&#8221; said Meera Joshi, the president and CEO of Green-Wood.<\/p>\n<p>The cemetery partnered with German company, Meine Erde, to bring the technology to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Green-Wood expects to begin offering this option in 2027 and encourages anyone interested in receiving more information to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.green-wood.com\/cemetery-services-inquiry-form\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green-Wood Cemetery is moving forward to become the first cemetery in New York state to offer natural organic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,53920,26803,1154,53921,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-123572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-cemetery","12":"tag-composting","13":"tag-green-wood-cemetery","14":"tag-human-composting","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}