by Nathalie Graham • Apr 15, 2021 at 1:55 pm
Return Home CEO Micah Truman opening up a bag of terramated compost. Nathalie Graham
When I arrived at the nondescript warehouse in Auburn, a team of construction workers was transforming the wide, empty space into a way station between this life and the next. This place was Return Home, the world s second-ever human composting facility. Once Return Home opens later this month, it will also be the largest.
In 2019, Gov. Jay Inslee greenlit legislation to allow people a third after-death option for their bodies. Instead of settling for being interred in a box or becoming charred dust in the wind, Washingtonians can now opt to be terramated. That is, they can pack their corpses into sci-fi-like vessels filled to the brim with organic materials, and through a sped-up decomposition process become a truckload of fresh, tillable compost.
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by Nathalie Graham • Apr 6, 2021 at 5:16 pm
Is this a convoluted way to bring back the sweeps for good? Nathalie Graham
A new coalition called Compassion Seattle, led by former short-term Mayor Tim Burgess, unveiled a charter amendment last week that carves into the city s constitution several policies designed to end the homelessness crisis.
The amendment lays out broad goals for Seattle s response to homelessness, such as creating at least 2,000 units of emergency shelter or permanent supportive housing no later than one year after the measure s passage, funding behavioral health services, and creating a behavioral health rapid-response team.
Homelessness providers have called on the city to implement some of these polices for years. With a swift path toward more shelter and more services, the Chief Seattle Club, the Public Defender Association, Evergreen Treatment Services, United Way King County, and the Housing Development
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