Human Composting Is Disrupting the Death Industry
When I arrived at the nondescript warehouse in Auburn, a team of construction workers was transforming the wide, empty space into a way station between this life and the next. This place was Return Home, the world's second-ever human composting facility. Once Return Home opens later this month, it will also be the largest.
In 2019, Gov. Jay Inslee greenlit legislation to allow people a third after-death option for their bodies. Instead of settling for being interred in a box or becoming charred dust in the wind, Washingtonians can now opt to be "terramated." That is, they can pack their corpses into sci-fi-like vessels filled to the brim with organic materials, and through a sped-up decomposition process become a truckload of fresh, tillable compost.
So far, Washington only has one facility like this. After designer Katrina Spade wrote her master's thesis in architecture on urban burial, she worked to make terramation a reality by sponsoring the 2019 legislation Inslee would ultimately sign. Spade now operates Kent-based Recompose, which opened last December with the capacity to compost bodies in 10 hexagonal vessels.
Soon-to-open Return Home will be able to compost 72 bodies, CEO Micah Truman told me. Unlike Spade, Truman doesn’t have a background in the funeral industry; he's an entrepreneur who previously worked in finance in China. When he first heard about the legislation, people in his life started expressing interest in being composted when they died. Truman knew Washington had just cracked open a burgeoning industry.
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I thought that would be a good way to go. Years ago, I told my husband to just wrap my body up in a sheet and drag it out into our woods. But then we decided that the cops would be suspicious and the neighbors would freak out. 
Though about "small enough" for the scavengers is not terribly small. When we moved into this house, I found a 18 pound frozen turkey in the bottom of the freezer that had been there for over five years. I wasn't very comfortable about cooking it so we thawed it out overnight, just enough to take the plastic wrapper off. I carried it out into the lower pasture and left it.
I watched later that day as the vultures hovered, then landed, then mobbed the area. They did this until dark that evening. The next morning I went out and the only parts of the turkey that were left was part of the pelvis, one thigh bone, the plastic thing that held the legs together, and part of the bag that had held the gizzards.
If they can consume an almost frozen turkey in one day, a decomposing human wouldn't be much challenge.
Oh, the vultures check that area regularly to see if a magic turkey shows up again - they also keep an eye on the place where we throw out our organics once a week. Between the vultures, the crows, and the foxes, there is nothing left to compost anyway.
I like that, gonna let my loved ones know I would rather be compost than ashes! PS-that's my governor 
It's PEOPLE!!!
SOYLENT GREEN is PEOPLE!!!
Sorry. I couldn't resist that.
This is not really a bad idea, you know...ashes to ashes, dust to dust and all that.
