Our Services

Based in Seattle, Washington, Recompose provides human composting services in all 50 states.

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Immediate Need

If a death has occurred or is expected soon, we're here to support you. Call us anytime at (206) 800-8733.

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Imminent Pathway

Extended support as you navigate a terminal diagnosis, hospice, or the end of life.

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Plan Ahead

Set up your future human composting with our prepaid funeral plan, Precompose. It's simple, flexible, and risk-free.

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Ceremony Offerings

Plan a custom ceremony in one of our thoughtfully curated spaces. Each experience can be tailored to fit your needs and traditions.

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array of vessels for human composting

Tour Recompose

After nearly a decade of design, development, fundraising, and collaboration, Recompose started accepting clients for human composting in December 2020.

Our 20,000 square foot facility located in Seattle carefully orchestrates the Recompose human composting process while offering a beautiful and intimate space for friends and family to gather and honor the person who has died.

We are delighted that people from across the country and world have visited Recompose excited to learn about our new approach to death care and how human composting works.

I attended a tour and it was remarkably informative and helpful in our planning for end of life. I absolutely recommend for those seeking an environmentally responsible way to care for loved ones or your own remains.

Tracey H

Seattle, Washington

I was delighted by the hospitality, graciousness, and care exhibited by the professional staff. The tour was educational and informative, with no hint of sales pitch.

Julie B

Seattle, Washington

The facility is so comforting and welcoming, you’d think it was a spa. Everything about Recompose is so well-thought, and I really appreciate the effort that the team has put into making the process of human composting more accessible, beautiful, and exciting.

Noah S

Seattle, Washington

What a wonderful experience! The tour exceeded our expectations. It was so nice to hear from Katrina herself about the evolution of Recompose and to be able to see all the different rooms and parts of the process. Highly recommend a visit!

Sarah L

Fort Collins, Colorado

I had a great experience last night on the Pride Community Tour. The team was great at providing more information on death care and the process. There was also so much helpful information on how members of the Queer community can make sure that they are honored and respected. Thank you.

Basil D

Seattle, Washington

I thought I was lost while driving to this destination amid the warehouses and semi trucks passing by, but when I arrived at Recompose, it felt like a breath of fresh air, serene, and comfortable. The staff was welcoming and the tour was very informative providing a viable option for death care.

Mary H

Seattle, Washington

Seeing where it all happens, and learning the process of returning bodies to their fundamental building blocks, was enlightening and uplifting. The facility is lovely.

EJ LW

Seattle, Washington

Recompose has created a thoughtful, warm, and inviting place. A healthy and meaningful connection that reframes our relationship to nature in our last act and supports a critical cultural shift.

Deb G

Seattle, Washington

I went on a tour of the facility and was SO impressed. It was everything I hoped it would be and more – so sensitive, so ecological, so moral, so personal. It’s very pleasing to think that human remains, my remains, will be turned into nutrient rich soil that can be used to grow new plant life. I like that.

Sally B

Seattle, Washington

If you’ve been considering human composting for your end-of-life plans, definitely go and take the tour. I immediately signed up for a payment plan afterwards. Thank you for giving me a choice in the final impact my life will have on this beautiful world I am so lucky to live in.

Melissa S

Redmond, Washington

Beautiful environment, caring staff who stressed respect and caring for the bodies of the persons who are in their keeping for this ecologically friendly process. Definitely recommend the tour.

Rico R

Seattle, Washington

The facility was so beautiful and peaceful, the decor was very thoughtful and invoked a strong sense of nature and elegance. The staff were incredibly kind and knowledgeable about the process. We left feeling so warm and hopeful for the future of natural death care. This really does feel like a crucial step into an eco-friendly future.

Jay C

Kirkland, Washington

The staff is wonderful, the atmosphere is genuinely serene, and they explain the process so well that any reservations you may have had when you first considered human composting, will be gone.

Lorie P

Arvada, Colorado

I attended a tour at Recompose in Seattle and I found the whole experience caring, thoughtful, gentle, and full of wisdom. Additionally, the facility is well designed with many natural touches. In a word: welcoming. The cycle of life is preserved through their process.

Ann L

Seattle, Washington

We had a fantastic talk and tour. What really came through for me was also the compassion that Recompose brings to it all. Recompose has quickly transitioned from being something we are just curious about to something we are strongly considering for our own end-of-life option.

Jerry P

Seattle, Washington

Phenomenal place, practice, and business. So deserving of the “Best Funeral Home” in 2023. I’m an early adopter, nearly paid in full, with not one regret. Supporting all my values so supremely, I will continue to spread the word, now, having taken the tour, with even more resolve and understanding.

Shannon M

San Francisco, California

Katrina’s passion about human composting and the environment is obvious. I am sure her caring persona will carry over to the services that she is providing to everyone.

Eric V

Seattle, Washington

I felt comfortable and welcomed from the moment I stepped inside the contemporary and tasteful greeting area. Who has had that feeling before at a funeral home?! The staff are highly knowledgeable, friendly, and clearly committed to this exciting, new and much needed technology.

Dorje D

Honolulu, Hawaii

The Recompose facility in Seattle is an uplifting place. The tour showed how thoughtfully people are treated – those who have just died and those left behind, from the Cedar Room for private last visits and rituals, to the gathering room for services and farewells, to the Greenhouse, pristine and peaceful.

Mindy K

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Washington is so fortunate to have human composting as an alternative option to conventional cemetery burial and cremation. Katrina and her team offer super informative tours of this facility in Seattle. I just attended one and highly recommend it for any and all!

Angie W

Seattle, Washington

Recompose 101: In-Person Tours

These hour-long experiences offer a unique opportunity to see Recompose’s ceremony and community spaces as well as a portion of the vessel array in the Greenhouse, where human composting takes place.

funeral ceremony space at recompose
Gov. Inslee signs Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 5001, May 21, 2019. Relating to human remains. Primary Sponsor: Jamie Pedersen
A dummy covered in plant material rests on a cradle in front of an open vessel.
A dummy covered in plant material rests on a cradle in front of an open vessel.
Recompose 101: Virtual Tours

Recompose’s online tours are similar to our in-person tours but offer the opportunity to be guided virtually through Recompose’s spaces and a portion of our Greenhouse from the comfort of wherever you choose.

Recompose Gifts & Gear

Show the world you’re a human composting enthusiast and help spark conversations about a radical new relationship with death by sporting compost me gear. 100% of profits from all purchases go to our Community Fund.

katrina spade holding a compost me pin
Gov. Inslee signs Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 5001, May 21, 2019. Relating to human remains. Primary Sponsor: Jamie Pedersen
Plan Ahead

Our prepayment program, called Precompose, allows you to pay in advance and make arrangements for your future human composting with Recompose. Every Precompose member powers our commitment to bring human composting to the world, tackle the climate crisis, and support the death care revolution.