💀Join end of life experts Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley Hospice Social Worker as we explore the ins and outs of dying. Mostly the outs. 💀In each episodes we will explore hospice, death and dying from taboo to topical and normalize death because DEATH IS NORMAL!
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💀Join end of life experts Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley Hospice Social Worker as we explore the ins and outs of dying. Mostly the outs. 💀In each episodes we will explore hospice, death and dying from taboo to topical and normalize death because DEATH IS NORMAL!
Season 1 Episode 12: Body Composting; A New Frontier!
Death Happens - An Insiders Guide to Dying!
56 minutes 15 seconds
1 year ago
Season 1 Episode 12: Body Composting; A New Frontier!
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is Katrina Spade. Katrina developed the concept of human composting while earning her Master of Architecture from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2013. She went on to invent a system that transforms the dead into soil and founded Recompose, a company based in Seattle, WA which offers the service to the public.
Recompose led the successful legalization of the process in Washington State in 2019 and began providing the service of human composting in 2020. Human composting is now also legal in Oregon, Colorado, Vermont, California, New York, Nevada, and Arizona.
Katrina and her team have been featured in Fast Company, NPR, BBC, and the New York Times. Katrina is an Echoing Green Fellow, an Ashoka fellow, and a Harvard Kennedy School Visiting Social Innovator. Her TED Talk has been viewed over 1.5 million times.
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
You can reach us at DeathHappensInsiders@gmail.com, on all places you find podcasts are found. A video option can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@DeathHappensInsiders
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Halley on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook: @HospiceHalley
Our intro music was composed by Jamie Hill (misfitstars.com)
Death Happens - An Insiders Guide to Dying!
💀Join end of life experts Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley Hospice Social Worker as we explore the ins and outs of dying. Mostly the outs. 💀In each episodes we will explore hospice, death and dying from taboo to topical and normalize death because DEATH IS NORMAL!
