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 ...

Advocates say human composting offers a sustainable, greener alternative to burials and crematoriums, and can also provide a ...

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Opinion: Armstrong Williams questions whether the utilitarian argument for “human composting” sidesteps a deeper moral and ...

When Dennis Cunningham was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wanted his death to reflect the values he lived by. As a civil rights lawyer, Cunningham defended the Black Panthers, AIDS protestors, and ...

Rhode Island lawmakers are considering bills to legalize human composting and water cremation. Human composting, or natural organic reduction, uses organic materials to break down a body in about 60 ...

When Lisa Fabbro lost her father a few years ago, the family chose to have him cremated. Back then, Fabbro didn't know there's a way to transform dead bodies into soil. She now imagines an alternative ...

Ashes to ashes, dust to plant feed: an Australian state is edging closer to a greener alternative to traditional burials ...

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 ...