Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company offering human composting as an alternative to traditional burials or cremations. As part of our TED Radio Hour+ summer series, Spade takes ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

Depending on where you live — and die — you might have a new choice available to you for how your loved ones will carry out your final wishes. In the past two years, bills that legalize human ...

When Americans die, most are buried or cremated. Washington could soon become the first state to allow another option: human composting. As NBC News reported, the push to allow composting of human ...

Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery considers new alternative to burial and cremation.

Katrina Spade, who invented modern-day human composting, is a 1999 Haverford College graduate and was awarded an honorary degree in March for her work. Spade founded Recompose, the first human ...

Katrina Spade is the founder of the Urban Death Project. She is raising money on Kickstarter for the design and implementation of the first ever human composting system.

A proposal to turn human remains into soil as an alternative to current funerary options is approaching reality. The Urban Death Project is currently crowdfunding its prototype, with a potential ...

Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company offering human composting as an alternative to traditional burials or cremations. As... Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose, ...

PHILADELPHIA — Paul Meshejian, a 76-year-old retired actor who lives in Philadelphia, said he never liked the idea of his body being embalmed and taking up land in an expensive box. The remaining ...