NSW has approved human composting, but the new law raises questions about Catholic beliefs, respect for the body and the ...

Catholic Cemeteries and Crematoria has no immediate plans to offer human composting following New South Wales Parliament’s ...

A tour of the three caves in southern Spain suggests that people in the area cannibalized one another as funerary practice ...

Rivanna Solid Waste Authority hosts the 9th Great Pumpkin Smash at McIntire Recycling Center, offering free pumpkin ...

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

In Hyderabad, groundwater tables have plunged drastically in a single year, borewells that once found water at shallow depth ...

“Bog bodies” are essentially human corpses that peat bogs have naturally preserved and mummified. Quite often, their skin, ...

Explains human composting (terramation), its process, legality in NSW, and how it compares to burial and cremation options.

In what was described as an Australian first, New South Wales moved toward allowing "human compost," a death-care option in ...

Human composting is now permitted in 14 US states. With a multiplicity of religions and strict adherence to traditions in ...

Actress Kim Novak has arranged to have her body turned into compost after her death, as it will allow her friends and family to use the resulting soil to plant trees in her memory. Novak, who lives on ...