Some tips to help you make arrangements with a local funeral home
Precompose members outside Washington State will need to make arrangements with a local funeral home to transport your body to Recompose in Seattle.
Most funeral homes are experienced with transportation but may be unfamiliar with human composting. Here are some tips to help you navigate making arrangements with a local funeral home.
Notes on embalming
Some funeral homes and certain states have guidelines that direct bodies to be embalmed before they are transported. When a funeral home says embalming is “required,” that is often their policy rather than an inflexible law. Regions with embalming guidelines are required to allow exceptions to these rules for religious or belief preferences. The Recompose staff can help you utilize this exception.
Tips for finding a funeral home
- Looking for a funeral home that accommodates sustainable funeral practices such as green burial or alkaline hydrolysis may be helpful.
- It can also be useful to look for a funeral home that works with a Jewish community, as some Jewish funeral practices prohibit embalming, and they may be more familiar with preferences against embalming.
Once you find a funeral home
- Let them know you will need to have your body transported to Recompose, a full-service green funeral home specializing in human composting
- Give them our contact information: 4 S Idaho St, Seattle, WA 98134, (206) 800-8733
- Be sure to let them know that Recompose cannot accept embalmed bodies
- They can contact us directly for the address of our location or any other questions
Sharing information with your family
Once you’ve made arrangements for your transport, please let your family know to contact the transporting funeral home at the time of your death. The transporting funeral home will then manage the pickup of your body at the place of death and ensure its safe delivery to Recompose.