Photo: Katrinaspade, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons⁷

Katrina Spade

Natural burial advocate and designer.¹

Born Sep 9, 1977.¹

About

Recompose is a public benefit corporation founded by designer and death care advocate Katrina Spade in 2017, building upon her 2014 non-profit organization Urban Death Project.

Recompose is a Washington state based company offering a death care service to convert human bodies into soil through a process known as natural organic reduction, or human composting. The process, which takes about 30 days, is marketed as a green alternative to the existing disposal options of cremation and burial.

From Wikipedia’s article on Katrina Spade, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

RecomposeFounder⁶

Career

Occupation: designer.⁵

Date not recordedFounded Urban Death Project³
Date not recordedFounded Recompose⁴

Sources

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WikidataKatrina Spade on Wikidata
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WikipediaKatrina Spade on Wikipedia
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WikidataKatrina Spade: Founded Urban Death Project, on Wikidata
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WikidataKatrina Spade: Founded Recompose, on Wikidata
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WikidataKatrina Spade: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataRecompose, Founder
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Wikimedia CommonsKatrina Spade photo by Katrinaspade, CC BY-SA 4.0