After decades working in mortuaries, a campaigner hopes to provide the UK's first human composting service as an alternative ...

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 ...

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Legislation is still moving the statehouse is renewing a broader conversation about how Illinoisans want to return their dead ...

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 ...

A new form of “green burial” is gaining attention, but its use along the river raises questions about transparency, ethics ...

(CNN) — The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive home from the Washington state facility that had turned his body into ...

In some funeral parlors, physical casket showrooms could die out and move to a virtual realm — the space instead used for “water cremation” machines that break down a human body into bone fragments ...

(NewsNation) — Rather than being burned, embalmed or interred, some Americans are pushing to be laid to rest using an alternative burial method called human composting. Also known as “terramation,” ...

Friday marked the House’s deadline to pass bills out of committee, with lawmakers sending more than 260 bills to the floor.

Human compost on farm land and public land would be banned in Fresno County under a proposed ordinance supervisors will ...