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 ...

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

Australia-first laws provide a third legal option other than burial and cremation for the treatment of bodies ...

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

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

Don't worry dead bodies don't shimmy like in this 1493 illustration of dancing skeletons from 'Liber Chronicarum' by German ...

Kim Novak, 93, reveals she's arranged to have her body composted after death so loved ones can plant trees, calling it "a ...

AUSTRALIAN-FIRST laws, which passed last Wednesday, provide a third legal option other than burial and cremation for the ...

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