Help Legalize Human Composting
Contact your legislators to express your support of human composting
Below is an email template you can use as a base to write your state legislators to express your support of human composting. We’ve learned it’s important to personalize your letter and add your own story about why you support this legislation.
Email Template
Subject Line: Please Support Natural Organic Reduction / Human Composting
Dear [REPRESENTATIVE OR SENATOR],
I am writing to express my hope that you will support natural organic reduction, also known as human composting. It is now legal in more than ten states including Washington, California, New York, Arizona, and Minnesota among others. Passing a bill to legalize natural organic reduction in [YOUR STATE] would add a much-needed sustainable death care option. I would appreciate the opportunity to choose human composting for my death care services.
[INSERT HERE WHY YOU PERSONALLY SUPPORT HUMAN COMPOSTING]
Thank you for your attention to this.
[NAME]
[ADDRESS]
Contact Information
Not sure who to write or where to send your email? Find contact information for your state legislators here.
How does Human Composting Become Law?
In the U.S., the laws governing human remains vary greatly from state to state, as do the processes for passing new laws. We wrote an overview of what the process can look like to help you understand what it may take to pass legislation in your state.
About the Death Care Industry
Funeral practices like cremation and embalming have a profound impact on the environment.
Each year, about 3 million people die in the U.S. Cremation burns fossil fuels and emits carbon dioxide and particulates into the atmosphere. Conventional burial consumes valuable urban land, pollutes the soil, and contributes to climate change through the resource-intensive manufacture and transport of caskets, headstones, and grave liners. Every year in the U.S., caskets use four million acres of forest.
What we do with our bodies when we die matters.
About Recompose
A decade ago, Katrina Spade recognized the need for a sustainable and scalable urban death care alternative. She spent years working with scientists and legal advisors designing the process to transform human bodies into soil.
In 2017, Katrina founded Recompose, a public benefit corporation based in Seattle and the world’s first human composting company. Recompose started accepting bodies for human composting in December 2020.
