Name: When I die, recompose me
Uploaded: 2017-06-14T15:02:51Z
Duration: 12 min 47 s
Description: 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.

Katrina Spade: When I die, recompose me

When I die, recompose me

Conventional burials use resources enough to build a Golden Gate Bridge, underscoring a need for sustainable death practices.

Recomposition offers a transformative approach to death care, turning human bodies into soil, nurturing life after death.

Embracing mortality composting, transforming burial by using our bodies to nurture soil and reconnect with nature's cycles.