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. Earth Funeral places each body in its own individual vessel on a layer of organic mulch and wood chips, where it will remain for ...

A 2022 law legalized human composting in California, which is also legal in 14 other states and seems to be growing in ...

An Ohio bill currently under review would allow the “natural organic reduction of remains,” which, in simple terms, would ...

Human composting has become popular among people who want an eco-friendly end. Should Ohio legalize it?

(CNN) — The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive home from the Washington state facility that had turned his body into ...

Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly inspired but much ...

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

Traditional cremation and burial remain the two major paths for disposition chosen by most people nationwide. Here, a cemetery in Henniker. (Photo by Dana Wormald/New Hampshire Bulletin) Rep. Jessica ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The San Joaquin River Conservancy and the San Joaquin River Parkway Trust, partners but separate entities, are now at odds. It’s because of the use of human compost ...