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. During human composting, the body is placed in a specialized polycarbonate vessel that's eight feet long, three and a half feet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth Funeral places each body in its own individual vessel on a layer of organic mulch and wood chips, where it will remain for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fresno County officials say they were “shocked” to learn that compost made from human remains was being spread on public land ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A new law will soon make Georgia one of 13 states to legalize human composting, an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional burial and cremation. Supporters say ...

SEATTLE -- Ashes to ashes, guts to dirt. Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation Tuesday making Washington the first state to approve composting as an alternative to burying or cremating human remains. It ...

A California tribe is speaking out after reports surfaced that soil created from composted human remains was spread on land ...

Disturbing allegations were made Thursday afternoon against the San Joaquin River Parkway Trust about a section of land along the river off Friant Road in Fresno County.