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 ...

The opening follows 2024 legislation from the Maryland General Assembly that permits the company to provide the service in the state.

Inside is the equipment for one of the funeral industry’s fastest-growing trends: human composting. Earth Funeral, a company with offices in San Francisco and New York, describes the process as “soil ...

Utah could legalize human composting as an alternative to burial or cremation after death. A bill on Utah’s Capitol Hill aims to legalize the practice of human composting, as an alternative to burial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minnesotans will soon no longer need to leave the state to return their remains to nature by converting them into nutrient-rich ...

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Not everyone has the chance to walk on the land they’ll one day fertilize. Lorna Moore did just that in early October when she visited the property that human-composting company Earth Funeral uses ...

August Elliott says he’d never thought much about what he’d like done with his body after his death. Then, about two years ago, Elliott’s father died after a long battle with cancer. As he grieved, ...

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House lawmakers are set to vote on legislation that would allow human composting and water cremation in Rhode Island.