This green approach avoids the release of smoke from cremation and the leaking of fluids from burying embalmed bodies.

The green option, also called “natural organic reduction,” transforms a body into nutrient-dense soil in just a few weeks.

During human composting, the body is placed in a specialized polycarbonate vessel that's eight feet long, three and a half feet wide, and three and a half feet tall. As Halloween draws near, images of ...

Everyone is dying to try this new burial trend. Eco-conscious New Yorkers can soon turn their corpses into compost as part of ...

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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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – When we die, one of few things may occur: we’ll be cremated, placed in a casket and buried, or donated for research. There are other options — like being shot into space or put in a casket ...

Imagine a funeral where your loved one is placed on a bed of wood chips and straw inside a steel cylinder vessel. Following a ceremony, the remains are locked in the steel vessel, heated over a period ...

DOVER, Del. (CBS/AP) - Supporters of human composting say it's a more environmentally friendly and cheaper alternative to being buried in a coffin or cremation - it uses less energy and avoids ...

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.

The historic cemetery is running out of space for new graves, and plans to offer a more sustainable alternative to cremation ...

A bill to allow composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation received overwhelming approval in the state House on Tuesday. The measure passed the House on a 37-2 vote and now ...