Death-positive is a movement inspired by sex-positive activism, asking why we talk openly about sex but not death. It's led to alternatives like open funeral pyres in Colorado, green burials, and human composting, which is legal in Washington state.
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And she was the one that coined the phrase when she saw something on Twitter years ago about the sex positive movement. And she was like, well, you know, if we're able to talk about sex, why are we not able to talk about death? And so she coined this phrase, you know, the death positive movement. So that's where that comes from. And it is one of those things. Like, the way I discovered so much about it was one thing just led to another. I mean, I literally went down a rabbit hole last year discovering, oh, that there's open funeral pyre in Colorado. You know, for people like Indian, the Indians and the Hindus, that might be something they want to do here in the United States. Or, like I said, the green burials are now. One of the big things that's just kind of come out in the last few months is the basically composting your body. They do that. I believe it's in Washington state, and there's another state that's trying to get that done, too. But, I mean, it's just like one thing leads to another, leads to another of how much there is out there.