It has been five years since Katrina Spade composted her first human body. With her pushing and lobbying, Washington state is now the first in the US to legally offer an alternative to burial or cremation: “above-ground decomposition,” also known as “natural organic reduction.” Turing your corpse into soil, in other words. In 2017, Spade…
— Read on www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/21/1009514/recompose-startup-turning-human-bodies-into-compost/
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