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Seattle green is people! US city's plans to turn corpses into crops

By Victoria Cavaliere
An artist's photo illustration of the Urban Death Project facility.

The greenest goodbye: Seattle group wants to compost the dead, but are people ready to eat tomatoes grown by Grandma's body?

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, corpses to crops? 

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Lifestyle , Urban Death Project , Katrina Spade , Seattle , dead body , compost , nutrient-rich soil , environment

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