Ashes to ashes, dust to plant feed: an Australian state is edging closer to a greener alternative to traditional burials ...

Opinion: Armstrong Williams questions whether the utilitarian argument for “human composting” sidesteps a deeper moral and ...

The Law Commission recommends new burial methods are approved through secondary legislation.

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 ...

Advocates say human composting offers a sustainable, greener alternative to burials and crematoriums, and can also provide a ...

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But perhaps people considering this option, once they’ve passed from life on earth, think of it as a natural way to complete ...

DOVER, Del.DOVER, Del. — The Delaware Senate gave final approval Thursday to a bill allowing the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation. The measure passed on a 14-7 vote ...

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 ...

When Dennis Cunningham was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wanted his death to reflect the values he lived by. As a civil rights lawyer, Cunningham defended the Black Panthers, AIDS protestors, and ...

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 involves turning loved ones into ...