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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 ...

From the outside, the grocery-store-size facility that sits off a highway a short drive from Baltimore looks like a Costco store. Inside is the equipment for one of the funeral industry’s ...

A demonstration human composting "vessel" for the deceased, decorated with flowers and compostable mementos, in the USA A TV presenter and author hopes to provide the UK's first human composting ...

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 ...

The house plants in Dianne Thompson-Stanciel’s Tinton Falls home are thriving with the help of a new compost. The leaves on her monstera deliciosa are a bright evergreen, their vines climbing taller ...

Minnesotans will soon no longer need to leave the state to return their remains to nature by converting them into nutrient-rich soil. As of July 1, human composting — also known as natural organic ...

Maryland is now home to the largest human composting facility in the country. Human composting, also known as natural organic reduction, only became legal in the state two years ago. This facility in ...

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 ...

A TV presenter and author hopes to provide the UK's first human composting service as an alternative to cremation or burial. Human composting, also known as terramation, is when the body of a person ...