31 - Redesigning End-Of-Life Care with Laura Cassidy

Laura Cassidy is the Interim Services Manager at Recompose — the Seattle-based funeral home pioneering human composting as an alternative to traditional burial and cremation. After two decades working in journalism and content direction, Laura shifted careers during the pandemic to work in grief support and end-of-life care, eventually joining the team helping families navigate one of life’s most difficult transitions. In this episode, Laura takes us inside Recompose’s groundbreaking approach to death care and the philosophy behind reimagining what a funeral home can be. We explore the human composting process itself — how bodies are transformed into soil through a carefully monitored natural process — but also the emotional and cultural shifts happening around death, grief, and ritual.