Oklahoma State Representative Jim Shaw's recent post on X has sparked a heated debate online over a process called Natural ...

Legislation is still moving the statehouse is renewing a broader conversation about how Illinoisans want to return their dead to the earth — and whether the state is finally ready to allow human ...

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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 ...

One of the bills lawmakers advanced is aiming to legalize human composting, or in other words, turning human remains into ...

Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 241 into law May 9, making Georgia the 13th state to legalize this practice. Human composting, known as terramation, transforms the body into soil through ...

In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Jersey could be the 14th state to allow human composting. Advocates say the option is more eco-friendly than burial or cremation. New Jersey resident Jayme Strasburger chose to compost her mother ...

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...