Almost as soon as natural organic reduction, or body composting, became legal in Colorado on September 7, 2021, The Natural Funeral — started by Seth Viddal and his partners in 2019 — began composting the first person in the state to elect the process as his after-death plan. On September 22, the man’s body was placed in a vessel built by Viddal’s brother, Christopher Olachia, and named “the chrysalis,” both for the symbolism of transformation — a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, a body becomes soil — and as a nod to Chris’s name…