Martha Stewart reveals her plan for when she dies
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Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY December 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Martha Stewart is proving she wants to be a gardener until the very end.
The famed lifestyle guru revealed during a recent appearance on the "50+ & Unfiltered" podcast that she plans to be composted after death. For a woman practically synonymous with a garden hat and farm-to-table cooking, that her last will and testament would return her to the soil is perhaps unsurprising, if not a bit unconventional.
"When one of my horses dies, we dig a giant hole really deep in one of my fields," she said on the podcast. "We have a pet cemetery and the horse is wrapped in a clean white linen sheet and very carefully dropped down into this giant, lovely grave."
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"I want to go there," Stewart, 84, explained.
As for the legality (and safety) of such a tactic, Stewart seemed unconcerned.
After podcast host Shawn Killinger asked, "Are you allowed to do that?" Stewart responded: "Why not?"
"It's not going to hurt anyone. It's my property," she said, adding later: "These coffin things and all that stuff? No way."
The revelation came during a rapid-fire round of questions from Killinger, a QVC host, to close out the podcast episode. The "burning questions" section also included inquiries about whether Stewart believed in God (she thinks she does) and why she doesn't like psychiatrists (she tried therapy but found it "futile").
Moving on to a "hot or not" section, Killinger asked Stewart about an array of men – the celebrity chef gave a "hot" only to Tom Hardy, doling out "nots" for Gordon Ramsey, Sylvester Stallone and Ted Koppel.
Stewart, a fixture in the home and garden space, is known for an eye-popping quote, often sharing unfiltered thoughts, whether about Duchess Meghan's foray into cooking television, preferring to travel by helicopter or having never ordered delivery.
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