More from KUOW How We Live Seattle Is Blazing The Trail On Cremation KUOW | By Matthew Streib Published October 23, 2014 at 1:07 PM AKDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 8:11 KUOW Photo/Matthew Streib Kenya Carver holds ashes of her friend Richard Haney. She is scattering them around the world on her travels. 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.