"In this Friday, April 19, 2019, photo Katrina Spade, the founder and CEO of Recompose, displays a sample of the compost material left from the decomposition of a cow, left, and some of the combination of wood chips, alfalfa and straw used in the process, as she poses for a photo in Seattle. Washington is set to become the first state to allow the burial alternative known as ""natural organic reduction,"" that turns a body into soil in a matter of weeks. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)"