KATRINA SPADE on New Life from Death /346

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Death is a process of decomposition, how can we come to embrace this reality? This week, guest Katrina Spade joins Ayana for a fascinating conversation on the possibilities of burial practices, ways to connect with death, and the value in thoughtful death plans. Sharing her journey to founding Recompose, “a licensed, full-service, green funeral home in Seattle offering human composting,” Katrina shares that the way we design death rituals matters in how connected we feel to the process of dea...

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0:55.7	Hello and welcome to for the wild podcast, I'm Ayanna Yeh.
1:00.4	Today we are speaking with Katrina Spade.
1:03.2	There are more ways to care for bodies than cremation and burial.
1:07.6	Metal caskets do embalming to the concrete box that that casket is put in.
1:13.4	All of that is this kind of perverse like protecting of the body,
1:18.2	because nothing will preserve a body forever.
1:21.2	And so being able to embrace that decomposition,
1:24.4	that beauty of that process, which is creating soil all over the globe,
1:29.9	which means new life is created out of death.
1:33.6	Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose,
1:37.2	a public-benefit corporation leading the transformation of the funeral industry.
1:42.2	Katrina is a designer and the inventor of a system that transforms the dead into soil,
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