People are signing up to have their remains composted after their death.
Upon a client's death, Recompose organizes "laying-in ceremonies" similar to traditional funerals.
The process takes around a month and results in about a cubic yard of soil, including the composted plant matter. Non-organic matter are sorted out, and the soil is tested.can then take the entire result, or a smaller portion in an urn-like container, for use in a backyard garden or forest."That soil is, on the one hand, very sacred and special to the people still living," says Recompose founder and CEO Katrina Spade.
Recompose has composted over 200 people so far, says Spade. Around 1,200 more have signed up to make monthly payments toward the final cost.was attracted by the "slow transition of transforming into something else, which means that a death doesn't happen overnight," she says.
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