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 ...

Conventional burial methods are profoundly energy and resource intensive. In contrast, NOR returns the body to the earth by reflecting the natural cycles, enriching soil and supporting new life. It’s ...

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, ...

Last week was a difficult milestone for Sean Hanna of Encino. It marked one year since he lost his partner Stephen Staunton to brain cancer. Staunton was an avid gardener. He was also a really big fan ...

ATLANTA — State lawmakers are getting closer approving a bill that allows the composting of human remains. It’s an alternative to burial or cremation and has gotten traction in other states. In the ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Have you ever heard of human composting? A Utah lawmaker has introduced a bill during the current legislative session that basically says you can turn your loved one’s body into soil, ...

Martha Stewart has sparked conversation after revealing she would like to be composted after death, describing the idea as an ...

A proposal to turn human remains into soil as an alternative to current funerary options is approaching reality. The Urban Death Project is currently crowdfunding its prototype, with a potential ...