更环保的方式，来进行埋葬

Promessa, a Swedish company that wants to revolutionize how to reduce the ecological footprint in traditional burials, is focusing on Kansas to introduce its product in the U.S. because the state has what some consider relatively lax cremation laws, a report said.

一份报告称，瑞典Promessa公司希望彻底改变如何减少传统墓葬的生态足迹，因为堪萨斯州有一些人认为相对宽松的火葬法，该公司将把重点放在堪萨斯州，把自己的产品引入美国。

The procedure, according to the Kansas City Star, is called promession. In standard cremation the body is broken down by fire. Promession consists of the freezing the body with liquid nitrogen and then “vibrating it into particles,” the report said.

据《堪萨斯城星报》(Kansas City Star)报道，这个过程被称为“承诺”(promession)。在标准的火葬中，尸体被火分解。报告称，“承诺”会用液氮冻结尸体，然后“将其振动成颗粒”。

Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, the biologist who founded the company, said in an interview that promession is cost-effective and eco-friendly.

该公司创始人、生物学家苏珊娜•维格•穆萨克(Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak)在接受采访时表示，promession既划算又环保。

“You are still in an organic form, which means you are not broken down, you are still food for the soil and if you spread it around you will be food for birds, or fish, or whatever,” she told Wired in 2013.

她在2013年对《连线》杂志说：“你仍然是一种有机形态，这意味着你没有被分解，你仍然是土壤的食物，如果你把它散布在周围，你将成为鸟类、鱼类或其他任何东西的食物。”。

The interest in “greener” ways to bury the dead has become a topic that other states in the country are considering. Washington last May became the first state to allow the composting of human bodies. Licensed facilities in the state will offer a “natural organic reduction.” The body is mixed with substances like wood chips into about two wheelbarrows’ worth of soil in a span of several weeks. Loved ones are allowed to keep the soil to spread, just as they might spread the ashes of someone who has been cremated — or even use it to plant vegetables or a tree.

对“更环保”的埋葬方式的兴趣已经成为美国其他州正在考虑的一个话题。去年5月，华盛顿成为第一个允许将人体堆肥的州。该州的特许设施将提供“自然有机减毒”。“在几周的时间里，尸体与木屑之类的物质混合到大约两轮手推车的土壤中。允许所爱的人保持土壤的蔓延，就像他们可能会传播骨灰的人已经火化-甚至使用它来种植蔬菜或一棵树。