Inside is the equipment for one of the funeral industry’s fastest-growing trends: human composting. Earth Funeral, a company ...

A new facility in Maryland is the largest human composting center in America. It turns human remains into soil in just 30 ...

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 ...

The bill would allow for human body composting, known as 'natural organic reduction,' and water cremation.

The Green-Wood Cemetery, located in Brooklyn, New York, announced that it will be implementing the option of composting dead bodies into healthy soil. Last week, it was revealed that the Green-Wood ...

PROVIDENCE – A bill to allow the composting of human remains and a method of dealing with bodies known as water cremation passed the House for the second year in a row on May 29, but this time with a ...

PHILADELPHIA — Paul Meshejian, a 76-year-old retired actor who lives in Philadelphia, said he never liked the idea of his body being embalmed and taking up land in an expensive box. The remaining ...

As I was eating breakfast on April 14 while reading The News, my eyes fell on this headline: “A project to turn corpses into compost.” Immediately I had a visceral response that turned my stomach and ...

Washington has become the first state in the nation to allow composting as an alternative to burial or cremation of humans remains. Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed a bill legalizing human composting, which ...

Human composting was developed in Washington state in 2019. In two months, bodies are turned into rich soil. "Water cremation" was also part of the House bill. The bill still must pass through the ...