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

Fresno County officials say they were "shocked" to learn that compost made from human remains was being spread on public land along the San Joaquin River in Central California. The revelation has ...

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 ...

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 House voted 46 to 17 for Representative McGaw’s bill to allow water cremation and human composting in R.I. But the Senate has not scheduled a vote on the legislation. PROVIDENCE — Kurt Edenbach, ...

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