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 ...

Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...

Tell us: What do you want to happen to your body after you die? Do you know what want to have happen to your body after you die? Do you want to be cremated, buried, or given an epic Viking burial?

When someone dies, there are a few options for how to lay someone to rest like a straight burial, cremation, and now something a bit more unique. Known as "organic human reduction" under Georgia law, ...

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 ...

A large faith conference is pushing back on "green composting" as a way to handle human remains. It is improper to compost human remains and the practice is disrespectful to the body of the deceased, ...

Katrina Spade is the founder or Recompose, the world's first human composting enterprise based near Seattle. Families bring loved ones to Recompose where their remains are converted into nutrient-rich ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Howard Fischer, a 63-year old investor living north of New York City, has a wish for when he dies. He wants his remains to be placed in a vessel, broken down by tiny microbes and ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah may soon be the 13th state to legalize "natural organic reduction," or human composting, as an alternative, lower-cost and eco-friendly way to bury the dead. Sen. Jen Plumb, ...

WORCESTER — Death is something we're all eventually going to face. And, before it happens, we can decide how we want to dispose of our bodies. There's traditional burial that includes embalming and a ...

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