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

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

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

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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 ...

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

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

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 hundreds of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah may soon be the 13th state to legalize "natural organic reduction," or human composting, as an alternative, lower-cost and eco-friendly way to bury the dead. Sen. Jen Plumb, ...

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 ...

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.

All of us, sooner or later, will need to make a decision about the final resting place for ourselves or a loved one. But the usual options offered by most funeral homes – burial or cremation – come ...