The Urban Death Project: Designing A Better Way To Die

With her Urban Death centers, Katrina Spade wants to create a more environmentally sustainable way to die. Morbid or brilliant?

In her thirties, Katrina Spade* started thinking about death. She wondered what her parents would do with her body if she were to die and realized she had no idea. In researching her options, she became fascinated by the rituals surrounding how Americans die and found major problems in the paths most of us take. For her master's thesis at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Spade laid out the Urban Death Project, an ambitious plan to build a system for composting human bodies after death and turning them back into soil.

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