SEATTLE — US-based company Recompose will start the first ever funeral service that turns human bodies into compost soil next year.<br /><br />Citing architects involved in the project, Dezeen reports that the flagship facility in Seattle will be capable of housing 75 bodies in its compost vessels.<br /><br />According to Recompose, prosthetics and pacemakers will be removed from the cadaver to prepare the body for the natural organic reduction process.<br /><br />Citing company founder Katrina Spade, the Washington Post reports that the vessels accelerate natural decomposition.<br /><br />According to Recompose, the company's technology is designed for urban areas that do not have space for burials.<br /><br />The body is interred in a vessel 4 feet wide and 8 feet tall with alfalfa, wood chips and straw and then heated to a temperature of 150 degrees Fahrenheit.<br /><br />After 30 days, the microbes will have decomposed the body and eliminated most pathogens and residual pharmaceuticals.<br /><br />The process creates about a cubic yard of soil from each person and the decedent's friends and family may take part of the soil for their garden.<br /><br />Recompose claims their services save one tonne of carbon emissions per person when compared to conventional burial or cremation, which increases sustainability.
