Katrina Spade On Dying for the Living

October 8th, 2019 by Voice of Vashon

What if we could grow new life after we die? This year, Washington became the first state to legalize “human composting.” The law allows human bodies to be converted into soil in licensed facilities.  Katrina Spade, the Founder and CEO of Recompose, discusses the company’s new system for gently and sustainably disposing of the dead using the process of composting.