One evening last week, around 75 people gathered in a vast Sodo warehouse for an event that may have been the first of its kind in human history: a housewarming party for a funeral home where bodies would not be burned or buried, but laid in individual vessels to become clean, usable compost.<\/p>\n
It was an eclectic group (doctors, architects, funeral directors, state legislators, lawyers, investors), but they had come together to celebrate the first site for Recompose, the fledgling Seattle company that hopes to change the way people think about what happens after we die.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou all have one thing in common,\u201d Katrina Spade, founder and CEO of Recompose, told the crowd beneath the mammoth, curved wood ceiling. \u201cYou are all members of the death-care revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
But for some at the party, it took a little time to get there.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Recompose, the human-composting alternative to burial and cremation, finds a home in Seattle\u2019s Sodo area @brendankiley<\/a> reports https:\/\/t.co\/LrbKtzHjWk<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/k32nIR8HVh<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ken Lambert (@SeaTimesFotoKen) November 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n