Architect Katrina Spade is currently working with soil scientists to perfect the process of transforming corpses’ decomposition into eco-minded uses like soil.

Waste360 Staff, Staff

October 27, 2016

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Urban Death Project Aims to Turn Corpses into Compost

Architect Katrina Spade has a goal of turning corpses into compost via her Urban Death Project. Spade is currently working hand-in-hand with soil scientists to perfect the process of transforming corpses’ decomposition into eco-minded uses like soil, and her first recomposition center could open in Seattle in 2023.

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WHEN YOU DIE, do you want to be buried or cremated? If the architect Katrina Spade gets her Urban Death Project to work, you might have a third option: compost.

If Spade’s first recomposition center opens in Seattle in 2023 as planned, it’ll be an airy, spiritual place where people can carry their loved ones’ corpses to a final rest—and put those corpses’ decomposition to an eco-minded use. She describes ​the facility as part funeral home, part place of memorial, and part public park.​ “I think there’s value in creating places where we’re thinking about death and its role in our lives, and the fact that it’s coming for all of us,” Spade says.

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