A demonstration human composting "vessel" for the deceased, decorated with flowers and compostable mementos, in the USA A TV ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

Friday marked the House’s deadline to pass bills out of committee, with lawmakers sending more than 260 bills to the floor.

(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 ...

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

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

Green burials, which return the body to the earth without a casket or embalming, can be cheaper than a conventional burial.