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Recompose opens $15M funding round, celebrates Colorado legalization featured image
May 2021 — Company Announcement

Recompose opens $15M funding round, celebrates Colorado legalization

The Series A‑3 round will support three new locations in the western United States 

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Jan 2021 — Location Announcement

Welcome to the Recompose Greenhouse

Photos and details about our first location 

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May 2019 — Company Announcement

Recompose opens funding round for sustainable death care option

$6.75M Series A round will fund Recompose’s startup and growth

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Educational Articles

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What To Do When Your Person Dies

We understand that death can be an overwhelming time. It is our mission to make the death care process as straightforward and gentle as possible. 

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About the Laying-In

Recompose calls the practice of placing a body into a vessel the “laying‑in.” The laying‑in marks the moment your person's transformation into soil begins. 

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Precompose

How to Document Your Death Care Wishes

Legally documenting your future wishes

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How to Complete Your Disposition Authorization

Documenting and signing your legal wishes

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How to Designate an Agent

Appointing the person responsible for your wishes 

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How to Arrange for Transport to Recompose

Arranging for safe and respectful transport

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Press

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Recompose, the first human-composting funeral home in the U.S., is now open for business

January 2021

Competition emerges in the Seattle-area human-composting funeral business

September 2020

COVID moves Recompose, the human-composting alternative to burial and cremation, into smaller space, accelerated timeline

August 2020

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The Departed Could Soon Become Compost in Colorado

April 2021

Ashes to Ashes. Dust to Dust. Or, in Washington State, You Could Now Be Compost.

May 2019

A Project to Turn Corpses Into Compost

April 2015

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The world’s first human composting facility will let us recycle ourselves

November 2019

Water cremation and human composting: the new, eco-friendly frontier of dying

August 2019

Life after death: Recompose, a soil-based alternative to burial and cremation, moves closer to reality

November 2018

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'More and more people don't want a traditional burial'

May 2021

Human compost funerals 'better for environment'

February 2020

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Composting human bodies to turn them into soil will soon be legal in one US state — part of a growing green death trend

May 2019

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Could ‘Human Composting’ Mean a Better, Greener Death?

January 2019

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Life After Death: What Human Burial Options Will Look Like in a Sustainable Future

August 2020

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Seattle’s Recompose is raising more cash as human composting startup plans locations in other states

June 2021

Human composting company Recompose raises $4.7M and hires GM ahead of 2021 Seattle opening

March 2020

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Compost your departed loved one and save the planet, L.A. lawmaker says

February 2020

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The startup turning human bodies into compost

October 2020

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Washington could become the first state to legalize human composting

December 2018

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Natural Causes: Why Some Are Choosing An Eco-Friendly End Of Life

March 2021

Compost Your Loved Ones

January 2020

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The Newly Legal Process for Turning Human Corpses to Soil

October 2020

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From Compost You Came and to Compost You Shall Return

July 2015

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The Architect Who Wants to Redesign Being Dead

September 2015

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Washington passes bill to become first state to compost human bodies

April 2019

Land Acknowledgement

Recompose acknowledges we make our lives and livelihoods on the lands of the Coast Salish People, specifically the Duwamish People. We honor with gratitude the Duwamish People past and present, the land itself, and the Duwamish Tribe.

Colonization is an active, persistent process. Indigenous communities continue to be resilient in protecting their ecological and cultural lifeways and deathways despite ongoing oppression. Recompose respects, shares, and supports this commitment to climate healing and environmental justice. Join Recompose in contributing to Real Rent Duwamish.

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