Plan Ahead
We make planning for human composting simple with our prepaid funeral plan, Precompose.
Why Precompose
Our prepayment program allows you to pay in advance and make arrangements for your future human composting with Recompose.
Plan Without Risk
Joining Precompose ensures you save money by paying today’s price for your future human composting, even if the price goes up. If you change your mind in the first 30 days, you will receive a 100% refund. If you decide to cancel after that, you will receive 90% back, plus any interest accrued.
Give Back to the Earth
Human composting uses 87% less energy than conventional burial or cremation. It produces nutrient-rich, life-giving soil and provides an opportunity to give back to the ecosystem that has supported us our entire lives. Through the Recompose Land Program, you have the option to donate any amount of your soil to nonprofit conservation organizations working to restore and revitalize the land.
Leave a Legacy
As a Precompose member, you join a groundswell of people working to transform the funeral industry: legalizing human composting state by state and reimagining end-of-life care as an experience rooted in nature. Together, we are cultivating enduring change on a large scale.
Support Business for Good
Recompose is a public benefit corporation committed to growing with integrity and purpose. By choosing Recompose, you support a community-centered, values-driven business working for lasting social and environmental impact.
From Our Clients
Voted the best funeral home in the Pacific Northwest in 2023, 2024, and 2025, Recompose earned this recognition by thoughtfully guiding hundreds of families through the experience of losing a loved one.
How it Works
From signing up for Precompose to ensuring your final wishes are fulfilled, we aim to make death care clear and straightforward.
Step 1: Choose your Plan
Provide some basic information and choose your payment level to get started online. Multiple payment options starting at $100/month allow you to select the plan that works best. If you prefer to have a Precompose packet mailed to you, please contact us.
Step 2: Review and complete your paperwork
Just like with any legal document, we recommend taking time to read and review your Precompose contract. You may do this all online or print the contract and mail it back to us. Our team is available to assist if you have questions.
Step 3: Enjoy peace of mind
By planning ahead, you have taken a step to lighten the decision-making and emotional load on others after you’ve died. At the time of your death, our Services team will carry out your wishes and be there to inform and guide your people.
Pricing
Precompose includes personalized care for your loved ones throughout the death care journey, from the the time of death through the transformation of your body into soil.
PRECOMPOSE PRICE: $7,000
Our monthly payment plans are straightforward. Choose the plan that works best.
- $100 per month — 70 payments over 5 years, 10 months
- $250 per month — 28 payments over 2 years, 4 months
- $500 per month — 14 payments over 1 year, 2 months
- $7,000 — one-time payment*
*We accept checks if you choose to pay the full balance at one time.
This price includes:
At the time of death, our Services team will help coordinate transportation and logistics and fulfill your death care plan.
For the next 8 to 12 weeks during your transformation into soil, Recompose will be there to inform and guide your people. Our Services Specialists have decades of experience providing personalized care and guidance.
Transportation of the body from within our service area is complimentary. Our current service area encompasses all of Washington State and the Portland metro area.
If you are outside our service area, we will help your loved ones coordinate transportation with a funeral home in your area. The cost of transportation to Recompose from outside our service area is determined and billed by the local funeral home your family chooses to work with. Learn more about planning for transportation.
Please note: The Recompose service area is subject to change in the future. Prepayment for transportation is not available.
On-site cooled storage for up to four weeks is included in your Precompose Plan.
The death certificate is a mandatory legal document that registers each death with the appropriate local authorities in Washington State. Our Services Specialists will handle the filing of the death certificate for residents of Washington State.
Our staff can also help if additional certified copies are needed. In most cases, we can assist in ordering and mailing copies from your local vital records office. Fees for each death certificate vary by county.
County Medical Examiners in both King and Clark Counties review all deaths in their respective counties. The fee is included in your Precompose Plan.
Before a death certificate is certified, the District Attorney program reviews each cause of death identified on the death certificate to verify that the cause and manner (what the person died from) do not indicate the need for the medical examiner’s office to investigate further.
You may choose to have an obituary published on our website and include multiple pictures in a photo gallery. Obituaries can also include links to donate to causes you believe in.
Our staff can assist your loved ones in writing their tribute to you. We also have a guide, Tips for Writing an Obituary, to help make the process more manageable and straightforward.
The transformation into soil will be managed by the leading experts in human composting. Our Services team will communicate with your people at key stages of the process.
Eight to 12 weeks after you are placed into a vessel, you will become nutrient-rich soil ready to nourish the land and give back to the earth.
Your people can choose how much soil to have returned or donate to conservation efforts. If your people choose to return the soil, it will be packaged and ready for pickup or delivery. We recommend talking with them before deciding what you’d like to do with your soil.
Recompose currently offers two packaging options: our standard packaging in durable paper bags is included in the price, and a smaller specialty container is available for purchase. Learn more about packaging options.
YOUR PRICE IS GUARANTEED
When you sign up for Precompose, we guarantee the cost of your Recompose services at the time of your purchase as long as you make payments consistently before your death, even if the price has since gone up. See our Price List for more information.
100% REFUND AVAILABLE WITHIN 30 DAYS
If you change your mind, you may receive a 100% refund within the first 30 days of joining Precompose. If you decide to cancel after that, you will receive 90% back, plus any interest accrued.
Ceremony Offerings
Recompose recognizes that every person is unique and comfort may come in many forms. We offer a variety of customizable ceremony options.
Our Seattle location offers two thoughtfully curated spaces for friends and family to gather for in-person and virtual ceremonies. Our team of licensed funeral directors helps with event planning, ensures events run smoothly, and can lead ceremonies if desired.
The Gathering Space
Floor-to-ceiling windows in shades of green and yellow and a large tapestry of the forest invite nature into this urban sanctuary. At the center of the room is a white, hexagonal threshold vessel—a passageway to the Greenhouse, where human composting occurs. This beautiful, light-filled room is a welcoming space for ceremonies and small services, and has a lectern for speakers and a screen for slideshows.
Cedar
Cedar is a room whose design was informed by the traditions and practices of home funerals. It’s a serene space where clients can spend unstructured time with their person before transformation into soil begins. It can be used for personal time, private viewings, or hands-on care, like bathing or shrouding. Clients also use Cedar to connect with their loved one’s soil after transformation is complete and before it is returned to the earth.
We recognize that for many this is a new experience. Our licensed Services Specialists are available to assist and serve as guides as requested.
Note: Ceremony offerings are optional and not included in the price of human composting. Please see our Ceremony Catalog for more information.
From Our Members
Our Precompose community includes thousands of individuals from across the country who span multiple generations.
Join Precompose
As a Precompose member, you join a groundswell of people working to transform the funeral industry
FAQ
If you want to dig deeper before you purchase Precompose, see below for more information to inform your planning.
Planning
If you expect a death soon, please call us at (206) 800-8733. Precompose is designed primarily for advance planning, but there may be situations in which it can be helpful to pre-pay ahead of an imminently approaching death. To speak to our Imminent Care Specialist please call (206) 210-9770 or email laura@recompose.life.
Yes, you can donate your organs and choose human composting.
Organ donation is only possible if someone dies in a hospital because they need specific equipment to keep the organs viable until the donation company arrives. Medical professionals remove organs within a few days after someone dies.
Our Services team will coordinate transportation to Recompose with the hospital. If you live outside Washington State, the local funeral home you’re working with will coordinate with the hospital.
Alternatively, full-body donations to medical schools and research projects usually embalm bodies to extend the time they can be studied. Embalmed bodies cannot undergo human composting. Some programs freeze the donor for non-embalmed use. So we encourage you to contact the donation program to understand their process and whether it is possible to donate your full body without embalming.
While the price for Recompose services will not increase for you as long as you pay consistently towards your balance, the price for transport outside our service area will increase over time to accommodate increases in gas and labor costs. For this reason, we do not offer prepayment for the price for transportation.
If you live outside our service area, we recommend setting aside the current transport price plus an additional buffer for potential future increases. You can see the current transport pricing in our General Price List.
Yes, you can cancel your plan at any time. If you cancel within 30 days of joining, you will receive a 100% refund. After 30 days, you will receive a 90% refund of the money you’ve paid into Precompose. The remaining 10% is kept by Recompose for our operating costs. Please contact Precompose at precompose@recompose.life or (206) 800-8733.
Once the transformation is complete, similar to ashes from a cremation, the soil can be used however your loved ones choose—to enrich a garden, plant a tree, or spread across multiple locations. You also have the opportunity to donate your soil to nonprofit conservation organizations through the Recompose Land Program.
While you can provide payment for someone, they need to sign their own documents or you need to have a very specific Power of Attorney document saying that you can sign the documents for them.
Yes. We offer both virtual tours and in-person guided, small group tours led by Recompose staff. Learn more and sign up for a tour.
Pricing & Sign Up
No, funeral services are not included in the price of Precompose. Recompose offers two thoughtfully curated spaces if your people wish to have an in-person or online service before or after soil transformation.
When you enroll in Precompose, your price is locked in. This means you’re guaranteed the cost of Recompose’s human composting services at the time of purchase—as long as you continue making payments consistently until your death—regardless of any future price increases.
Complimentary transportation of the body to Recompose is included from anywhere within our service area, which covers all of Washington State and the Portland metro area. For full details, view our General Price List.
Yes. If you prefer to pay by check, full payment is required. Please mail your check to: Recompose, 4 S. Idaho Street, Seattle, WA 98134. Please contact Precompose at precompose@recompose.life or (206) 800-8733 if you have questions about how to pay by check.
Yes, our staff can help you sign up via phone or by mail. You can call (206) 800-8733 or email us at precompose@recompose.life to schedule time to sign up via phone or request a mailed Precompose packet.