Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When someone dies, there are a few options for how to lay someone to rest like a straight burial, cremation, and now something a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world’s largest human composting facility just opened for business in Maryland, offering organic reduction as an alternative to traditional burial and cremation. Capable of composting 2,000 humans ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

Natural organic reduction, or human composting, would be another option besides cremation and burial (with and without formaldehyde) The bill would also legalize water cremation, also known as ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...

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, ...

The largest human composting facility in the nation is soon opening in Maryland, with capacity to handle 2,000 bodies a year. It's meeting a growing demand for eco-friendly interment options. More and ...