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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 ...

The phrase “human composting” sounds like something out of dystopian science fiction without any context — but it’s a new and green way lay the dead to rest. The term describes turning remains into ...

When Howard Fischer eventually dies, he is going to be composted in Seattle. He’ll be wrapped in cloth, placed on a bed of wood chips, and then his family will cover him in alfalfa and flowers. After ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — In California, where the massive number of COVID-19 deaths has inundated funeral homes, one legislator hopes the Golden State becomes the next place to legalize the process of ...

Architectural practice Olson Kundig has unveiled designs for the flagship facility of Recompose, a company that will offer a new and sustainable after-death care service, in which human remains are ...

New York recently became the sixth state to legalize body composting after death. The procedure turns your remains into soil that your loved ones can use to grow a plant. Experts say it is a greener ...

Somewhere in Kent, tucked anonymously into acres of warehouses and light-industrial workshops, the first full-service human-composting funeral home in the United States is operational. After nearly a ...

Recomposition vessels for processing human remains are shown in a gathering space in this artist’s rendering for the Recompose facility in Seattle. (Olson Kundig Image) Recompose, the Seattle-based ...

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