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Company News

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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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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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

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

Human Composting, a New End-of-Life Choice, Turns Bodies Into Soil: 'Rejoin the Natural Cycle'

June 2021

What You Should Know About Human Composting, a 'Beautiful' Way to 'Go Out with a Bang'

June 2021

Human Composting? Colorado Could Become Second State to Legalize Turning Your Body Into Soil After Death

April 2021

‘A literal return to the earth’: is human composting the greenest burial?

August 2021

Human composting could be the future of deathcare

February 2020

Eco-friendly ending: Washington state is first to allow human composting

May 2019

A greener afterlife: is human composting the future for funerals?

March 2015

To Be a Field of Poppies: The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost

September 2021

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

May 2021

Human compost funerals 'better for environment'

February 2020

Oregon Has Legalized Human Composting

June 2021

Human Composting Just Got the Green Light in Washington

May 2019

It's Now Legal in Oregon To Be Turned Into Compost After You Die

June 2021

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

Colorado becomes only 2nd state in the U.S. to allow composting of human bodies

May 2021

Composting human bodies on track to become legal in Colorado

April 2021

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

February 2020

Washington state braces for eco-friendly ‘human composting’

May 2019

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

Is Composting the Future of Death?

January 2022

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

March 2021

Compost Your Loved Ones

January 2020

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

August 2020

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

January 2019

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

Washington passes bill to become first state to compost human bodies

April 2019

The startup turning human bodies into compost

October 2020

Washington could become the first state to legalize human composting

December 2018

The Newly Legal Process for Turning Human Corpses to Soil

October 2020

From Compost You Came and to Compost You Shall Return

July 2015

The Architect Who Wants to Redesign Being Dead

September 2015

Resources

Company News

May 2021 — Company Announcement

Recompose opens $15M funding round, celebrates Colorado legalization

Jan 2021 — Location Announcement

Welcome to the Recompose Greenhouse

May 2019 — Company Announcement

Recompose opens funding round for sustainable death care option

Educational Articles

Support

What To Do When Your Person Dies

Support

About the Laying-In

Precompose

How to Document Your Death Care Wishes

Precompose

How to Complete Your Disposition Authorization

Precompose

How to Designate an Agent

Precompose

How to Arrange for Transport to Recompose

Press

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