Our guest for today’s episode is Katrina Spade, the founder of Recompose, which is a human composting service based out of Seattle, Washington. 

Before I get into the details of our conversation, as you can imagine, our conversations centers around death. If the topic stirs up personal feelings and situations you would not rather than experience at this time, then please do not listen to this the episode. Every person has a different relationship with death and I don’t want to catch anyone off-guard. 

If you choose to stick around, thank you for engaging this topic. It is one I’ve thought about a lot as you’ll hear in the episode and one that our guest Katrina has obviously thought about a lot as well. And that thought is reflected in the Recompose experience.

In just about a handful of years, Recompose has brought hundreds of people through the human composting process. And as you’ll hear from Katrina, every aspect of the process has been designed and designed with intention.

With 13 states in the United States having legalized human composting including Georgia, Washington, Delaware, California and Minnesota, it is a practice that offers - at least in my opinion - a path to transition from this mortal coil to whatever you believe is next in a way that respects and honors nature by giving something back. I see it as completing the cycle. 

Links

• Recompose Website
• Recompose Instagram
• Katrina Spade TEDX Talk