Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast.

I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium, and here we explore life, death, consciousness,

and what it all means.

Today I'm welcoming Anna Swenson to the show. Anna is communications manager at

Recompose, a provider of ecological death care in Seattle, Washington. Recompose invented

and is the first company in the world to offer natural organic reduction, a process that

gently converts human remains into soil.

Since joining Recompose in 2019, Anna has led the company's marketing, education, events,

and public policy. Prior to joining Recompose, Anna led public relations for technology

startups while volunteering in

hospice and end-of-life care. She enjoys reading, cooking, therapy, and the ocean. Sounds like some good

things to enjoy. Welcome, Anna. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I almost put in there that I

also enjoyed talking all my friends into going to therapy.

I as a therapist love that. So you are like right up my alley. Good. I mean, it's like I do really

enjoy getting people to go to therapy. It's so helpful for all of us. I could not agree more.

So tell us today, because I kind of stumbled upon your, what you guys are

doing and thought it would be great for my listeners. But what is Recompose and how did it come to

be? Right. So Recompose is, as that bio said, an ecological death care company.

And, you know, what does that mean?

We invented that term.

So the process that we offer is called natural organic reduction.

And in very basic terms, it means that we turn human bodies into soil.

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