Death is inevitable. But Seattle-based company Recompose is giving people a new way to exit this mortal coil: Having their remains laid in a tube of mulch and soil and letting bacteria turn them into ...

An Ohio legislator and national funeral company are working to give residents a new option for their remains: "human ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After opening last year, the world’s largest human composting facility was honored as Washington’s Funeral Home of the Year. Return Home, based in Auburn, Wash., is the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On today's episode of Science Is Amazing, there's apparently a funeral home in Washington state that's turning human bodies into ...

DEATH can be an unsettling thing – especially when you think about what could potentially happen to the body. Although some people ask to be buried and others cremated, you can also choose to be ...

The Law Commission recommends new burial methods are approved through secondary legislation.

The ultimate in compost-mortem may soon be coming to a funeral home near you. New York state Assembly member Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) and state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-Queens), have co-sponsored a bill ...

Recompose and the American architectural design firm Olson Kundig Architects have announced that they will open a completely new composting facility in 2021. The World's First Human Composting ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. One mom carried out her son’s final wish to make the planet greener — by turning his remains into reusable compost for his family to use in a garden.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At 1:05 a.m. on a crisp February morning in Boulder, 52-year-old Sheila Luna laid her head back on the hospital bed in her moonlit living room, closed her ...