Tag Archives: Human Composting

From Dust to Compost? A Christian Response to HB 5425

Posted on April 14, 2026 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

The state of Illinois is number one! We are number one in terms of unfunded pension liabilities now at $144,000,000,000. You might think that this should be the major focus of our legislators in Springfield. But believe it or not, they have other priorities including human composting.

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PODCAST: Composting Humans

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Benjamin D. Smith

What do you get when you cross a “non-religious” person with an eco-freak? You get a devotee of human composting. And by that, I don’t mean humans who compost. I mean humans who are turned into compost—after death, of course. Lesbian Katrina Spade has been promoting the eco-friendly composting of human remains since 2014 when she founded the Urban Death Project, since renamed Recomposed. Get it? Composting humans is recast as re-composing them, kind of like re-purposing them. What the new name loses in forthrightness, it gains in marketability.

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