Green burials, which return the body to the earth without a casket or embalming, can be cheaper than a conventional burial. Many in Connecticut opt for these, but often, the choice is made for ...

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. Tell us: What do you want to happen to your body after you die? Do you know what want to have happen to your body after you die?

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 ...

PROVIDENCE – A bill to allow the composting of human remains and a method of dealing with bodies known as water cremation passed the House for the second year in a row on May 29, but this time with a ...

The house plants in Dianne Thompson-Stanciel’s Tinton Falls home are thriving with the help of a new compost. The leaves on her monstera deliciosa are a bright evergreen, their vines climbing taller ...

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

The San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust said it would no longer use human-based compost at Sumner Ranch ...