Burial and cremation are no longer the only two options we have in deciding what happens to us at the end of life, as turning your body into compost is gaining legal status across the world.

Human composting company Recompose is a winner of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a greener death care option. Can you design a legal, respectful, and efficient way to bury deceased loved ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Americans are looking for greener ways to die, and a new wave of deathcare startups ...

Katrina Spade is the founder or Recompose, the world's first human composting enterprise based near Seattle. Families bring loved ones to Recompose where their remains are converted into nutrient-rich ...

Someday, Sonia Baker hopes her body will nourish a tree. She’s already picked one out — a big, old Gravenstein apple tree at her granddaughter’s place on Beacon Hill. “That kind of tree makes the best ...

Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Sep 25, 2025 at 7:51 am September 25, 2025 at 2:56 pm Recompose founder and CEO Katrina Spade in front of the ...

One evening last week, around 75 people gathered in a vast Sodo warehouse for an event that may have been the first of its kind in human history: a housewarming party for a funeral home where bodies ...

(RNS) — The Washington state-based company Recompose is behind the human composting process, and on Tuesday (Aug. 18), it opened its prepayment option for people who would like to begin making those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York recently became the sixth state to legalize body composting after death. The procedure turns your remains into soil that ...

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