Martha Stewart likes her dead horses to be “composted”, and she wants to be buried in the same way when she dies.
Martha Stewart buries her dead hoses in “clean linen sheets” on her property.
The 84-year-old businesswoman also wants to be “composted” when she dies because it is sustainable for the environment.
Martha appeared on the latest episode of QVC+’s 50+ and Unfiltered podcast, and host Shawn Killinger did not know what the star meant by “composted”.
Using her horse revelation as an example, Martha then explained: “When one of my horses dies, we dig a giant hole really deep in one of my fields. We have a pet cemetery, and the horse is wrapped in a clean linen sheet and very carefully dropped down into this lovely giant grave.
“I want to go there.”
Shawn – who was a candidate on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart – pressed the TV host on whether it is legal to wrap horses up in a white sheet and bury the animal in her back garden.
Martha replied: “It’s not going to hurt anybody. It’s my property.”
For her own body, Martha ruled out a traditional burial.
She added: “These coffin things and all that stuff, no way.”
Elsewhere in the podcast episode, the cookbook author recalled the time she was struck by lightning on three separate occasions throughout her life.
The first time it happened was in 1970 when Martha was washing her dishes in her kitchen, and the lightning came down from the sky and entered her cottage, in Middlefield, Massachusetts, via the metal piping on the property.
She remembered: “I saw it go down the pipe, and then all of a sudden, it came out of the faucet in the water and zapped me right in my stomach, and threw me on the floor.”
Martha – who was married to Andrew Stewart from 1961 to 1990 – added: “My husband was in the living room, and he came running in, and there I am lying on the floor, and I think I was hit by lightning. And it really hurt, and I had a mark on my stomach.
“A little burn.”
The second occasion was when she was on the phone to someone in the kitchen in her Westport, Connecticut, house, when Martha saw lightning come down from the sky, and ripped “right through the phone, into my ear”.
And the third time was when Martha was in her garden, but all the lightning strikes left her with “no adverse effects”.
Martha Stewart buries her dead horses in ‘clean linen sheet’ on her property
