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Seattle Is Blazing The Trail On Cremation

caption: Kenya Carver holds ashes of her friend Richard Haney. She is scattering them around the world on her travels.
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Kenya Carver holds ashes of her friend Richard Haney. She is scattering them around the world on her travels.
KUOW Photo/Matthew Streib

Ross Reynolds talks with Jeff Jorgenson, owner of Elemental Cremation and Burial, about why 90 percent of people in Seattle are cremated, compared with only 47 percent nationally.

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