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

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

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

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 ...

Perth, Oct 26 (The Conversation) 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Burial and cremation are no longer the only two options we have in deciding what happens to us at the end of life, as turning your body into compost is gaining legal status across the world.