Compost Your Remains

A new Washington State law was the first-in-the-nation, to legalize the practice of “natural organic reduction” of human remains. A Seattle-based company named Recompose opens in 2021, offering $5,500 services that turn a human body into one cubic yard of soil during the course of 30 days. Families of the deceased can take as much soil as they like and any remainder goes to sustaining conservation land in the Puget Sound region. It claims the (not-so-cheap) service is a more eco-friendly way to go.