Human composting startup Recompose launches crowdfunding campaign to raise $5M - A dummy is shown in a cradle with plant material in front of a Recompose vessel. ... - https://www.geekwire.com/2023/seattle-human-composting-startup-recompose-launches-crowdfunding-campaign-to-raise-5m/ #humancomposting #deathanddying #crowdfunding #katrinaspade #deathtech #recompose #startups

I am grateful for careful, smart journalism. Special thanks to Linda Bell for writing this piece for DiversityInc.
 
My fav quote:

“We forget that a funeral home needs to be a profit center,” says Haneman. “Every death is an opportunity for them to drive costs.”

https://www.diversityinc.com/too-poor-to-die-the-rising-cost-of-funerals/

#funeral #Fediverse #LawFedi #deathcare #funeralpoverty #socialsafetynet #death #deathtech #CreightonLaw

I am a legal academic who speaks/researches on innovative #deathtech, economics of death care, #greenburial, #taxpolicy, and sometimes menstrual equity.

And for those of you who want to be turned into a tree when you die, here is a picture of The Living Urn (to my left) and a water #urn in my hands.