An alternative to traditional casket burials and cremation is gaining major traction across the country: human composting.

The funeral provider Earth has opened the east coast's first composting facility.The 37,000 square foot facility, which has ...

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 ...

In 2020, Recompose was the first U.S. company to develop the technology needed for the commercial composting of human bodies, disrupting a funeral industry that had been largely unchanged for decades.

From the outside, the grocery-store-size facility that sits off a highway a short drive from Baltimore looks like a Costco store. Inside is the equipment for one of the funeral industry’s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minnesotans will soon no longer need to leave the state to return their remains to nature by converting them into nutrient-rich ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to legalize human composting as an environmentally-friendly alternative to burials and cremations. The legislation, signed into law last week by New Jersey Gov.