It smells nice and earthy.

I mean, when I started the work, early days, one of my big concerns was, would it smell bad? And, um, so we actually worked, you know...

A good compost process, a good composting system, if the microbes are working actively, it should smell pretty good.

We have control of everything.

The input, it's one person's body, um, of d- varying sizes, but still, it's one person's body, and then it's wood chips, alfalfa, and straw.

We know exactly what we're placing in that vessel, so there's not as much opportunity for things to go a little awry.

This is the straw that we use to compost a body.

It is.

It smells nice and earthy.

I mean, when I started the work early days, one of my big concerns was would it smell bad? And so we actually worked, you know, a good compost process, a good composting system.

If the microbes are working actively, it should smell pretty good.

We have control of everything, the input.

It's one person's body of varying sizes, but still it's one person's body.

And then it's wood chips, alfalfa, and straw.

We know exactly what we're placing in that vessel, so there's not as much opportunity for things to go a little awry.

Because if you can kind of zoom out from it being people, it's really science.