Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When someone dies, there are a few options for how to lay someone to rest like a straight burial, cremation, and now something a ...

Now, New South Wales has become the first Australian state to pass legislation allowing another option: “human composting”, ...

The world’s largest human composting facility just opened for business in Maryland, offering organic reduction as an alternative to traditional burial and cremation. Capable of composting 2,000 humans ...

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In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

The house plants in Dianne Thompson-Stanciel’s Tinton Falls home are thriving with the help of a new compost. The leaves on her monstera deliciosa are a bright evergreen, their vines climbing taller ...

Natural organic reduction, or human composting, would be another option besides cremation and burial (with and without formaldehyde) The bill would also legalize water cremation, also known as ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...

The largest human composting facility in the nation is soon opening in Maryland, with capacity to handle 2,000 bodies a year. It's meeting a growing demand for eco-friendly interment options. More and ...