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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Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known as human composting.

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 ...

Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, says the company’s human composting service is designed to provide an eco-friendly final arrangement now available to families across Illinois.

When Michelle Skaff dies, she's going to turn into dirt. The 31-year-old is a client of Return Home, a Seattle-area human composting facility. Its futuristic-looking vessels full of organic material ...

As urban areas grow and green spaces dwindle, the balance between remembrance and practicality is becoming increasingly important.

You probably know that composting banana peels and eggshells can help reduce your negative impact on the environment. But did you know that, once you die, you can do that with your body, too? Human ...

Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery is set to become the first on the East Coast to offer human composting.

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

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 ...

A large faith conference is pushing back on "green composting" as a way to handle human remains. It is improper to compost human remains and the practice is disrespectful to the body of the deceased, ...