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

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 ...

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What should happen to your body after you die? It’s hardly a topic you’d bring up over dinner, but it’s a decision that will eventually need to be made, either by you or by those you leave behind. In ...

Kristoffer Hughes has spent 32 years working with the dead. And he thinks we've been doing it all wrong. Treated as a "problem to be solved", bodies are embalmed with formaldehyde to preserve their ...

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 ...

Human composting offers a new, environmentally responsible choice for what to do with a body after death. The Milwaukee Film Fest will host this compelling documentary twice this week in honor of ...

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