The transformed human remains are then moved from the vessel into a small cube, where they remain for 30 more days as they ...

SEATTLE — Leslie Christian recently added unusual language to her living will: After death, she hoped her remains would be reduced to soil and spread around to help out some flowers, or a tree. In ...

By Isabella Darcy, NJ State House News Service Moria Kaminski and her husband try to make environmentally friendly choices.

Five years after Washington became the first state to legalize natural organic reduction, 13 more states have approved the death care process.

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 ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that ... into human compost by a ...

Human composting is one of the emerging alternatives to cremation or burial that is viewed as more environmentally friendly ...

Earth Funeral has been at the heart of human composting since Washington, where the company is based, became the first state to legalize the practice in 2019. Human composting doesn’t vary much from ...