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Human composting company Recompose is a winner of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a greener death care option.
Human composting company Recompose is a winner of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a greener death care option.
When Howard Fischer eventually dies, he is going to be composted in Seattle. He’ll be wrapped in cloth, placed on a bed of wood chips, and then his family will cover him in alfalfa and flowers. After a ceremony, his body will go into a hexagonal vessel with an internal structure similar to that of a honeycomb, where…