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

ATLANTA — State lawmakers are getting closer approving a bill that allows the composting of human remains. It’s an alternative to burial or cremation and has gotten traction in other states. In the ...

Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minnesota has legalized a process that allows people to, quite literally, become soil after they die. The two- to three-month ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Jersey is living up to its nickname even in death. The Garden State approved a bill that legalizes human composting, an alternative to traditional burials in which a corpse is transformed into ...