SEATTLE — Recompose is building its first human composting location in SODO. The company will be the first of its kind in the world and is set to open in spring 2021.
Rather than burial or cremation, they'll take your corpse and turn it into compost for a mere $5500 - less than half the cost of traditional burial, though a bit more than cremation. Although the process takes about a month, you'll end up as part of a square yard of dirt. And you won't have a bunch of chemicals replacing your blood, unlike standard funeral home practices. So you can safely be re-used to grow healthy plants.
The process requires putting a body in a vessel with wood chips, alfalfa and straw.
Basically, you'll be indistinguishable from the rest of the stuff in there by the time the dirt (and you, now part of the dirt) are removed from the container. You can end up growing trees or food, even house-plants. If the latter, who knows? You could end up running for president, winning, and perform as effectively as Jimmy Carter and Barry Obummer!
All thanks to Recompose.