"Ashes to ashes. Mulch to mulch." That could serve as the motto for the latest trend in funeral services: human composting.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth Funeral CEO Tom Harries displays a natural organic reduction vessel, full of mulch, wood chips, flowers and other natural ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Some North Carolina families are making an unusual choice about what to do with their bodies when they die. Marsha and Michael Costigan are turning to a human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before Janet Batiansila's husband, Walter, died last year, the man raised in the French Quarter of New Orleans jokingly wished to ...

When Michelle Skaff dies, she's going to turn into dirt. The 31-year-old is a client of Return Home, a Seattle-area human composting facility. Its futuristic-looking vessels full of organic material ...

Depending on where you live — and die — you might have a new choice available to you for how your loved ones will carry out your final wishes. In the past two years, bills that legalize human ...

The Green-Wood Cemetery, located in Brooklyn, New York, announced that it will be implementing the option of composting dead bodies into healthy soil. Last week, it was revealed that the Green-Wood ...

Fancy your corpse being transformed into soil that can be used to grow a memorial tree or boost your family’s vegetable ...

Before Janet Batiansila’s husband, Walter, died last year, the man raised in the French Quarter of New Orleans jokingly wished to be “dragged to a bayou and eaten by alligators.” But Batiansila, a ...