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![Washington state residents just got another body disposition option.
Recompose, a natural organic reduction (aka human-composting) funeral home, is the first of its kind to open in the United States.
Katrina Spade, Recompose founder and CEO, came up with her funeral home’s concept 10 years ago while considering how she wanted her remains handled.
The @RecomposeLife “process” has a few steps. “[It] takes 30 days in a vessel full of wood chips and straw, then another few weeks in ‘curing bins,’ large boxes (one per person) where soil is allowed to rest and continue exhaling carbon dioxide,” the Seattle Times reports. “Once that process is complete, friends and chosen family can either retrieve the soil themselves, or donate it to an ecological restoration project at Bells Mountain near Vancouver, Washington. So far, most have elected to donate.”
“This is a very controlled process, completely driven by microbes,” @KatrinaSpade said to the Times. “It’s fuelled by plant material and monitored in a very rigorous way.”
The entire service—including body pickup, paperwork, body disposition, and optional service—costs $5,500.
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