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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — Rather than being burned, embalmed or interred, some Americans are pushing to be laid to rest using an alternative ...

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

Rhode Island's House passed a bill to allow human composting for the second year in a row and "water cremation" for the first time.

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 ...

You probably know that composting banana peels and eggshells can help reduce your negative impact on the environment. But did you know that, once you die, you can do that with your body, too? Human ...

A new law will soon make Georgia one of 13 states to legalize human composting, an environmentally friendly alternative to ...

Only seven states have legalized human composting as a burial practice. That's why 29 percent of the bodies brought to Recompose, a composting... The ultimate green burial? Human composting lets you ...