How Much Will It Cost to Dispose of Your Remains?

An artist's rendering of bodies in the Urban Death Project. JON ADAMS
In the course of working on this week's story about Katrina Spade and her Urban Death Project—which proposes a third way between burial and cremation: composting—I talked to several funeral directors who said their industry is bizarre in its wild price differences.
As Nora Menkin, director of the People's Memorial funerary co-op explained in the article, many funeral homes have been able to act wi