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Today, Explained

Recompose - A Better Way to Bury the Dead

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Katrina Spade founded Recompose, which is a Seattle based human composting company. Her brother Wayne died and we called the Recompose Facility very much like you would any funeral home; they came and got his body. We were able to send biomass our own flowers to be layered over Wayne's body. And we had a chance to sing some songs and say poems and witness his entry into the cylinder. It felt very natural and very wonderful, frankly.

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