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When I die, recompose me

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Katrina Spade |

TEDxOrcasIsland

• March 2016

What if our bodies could help grow new life after we die, instead of being embalmed and buried or turned to ash? Join Katrina Spade as she discusses "recomposition" -- a system that uses the natural decomposition process to turn our deceased into life-giving soil, honoring both the earth and the departed.

What if our bodies could help grow new life after we die, instead of being embalmed and buried or turned to ash? Join Katrina Spade as she discusses "recomposition" -- a system that uses the natural decomposition process to turn our deceased into life-giving soil, honoring both the earth and the departed.

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Katrina Spade

Inventor, designer, death care advocate

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Katrina Spade created a system called "recomposition" that transforms human bodies into soil, so that we can return to the earth after we die.

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