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 ...

Maryland has introduced an innovative option for end-of-life choices with natural organic reduction. Located in Elkridge, a new facility offers a sustainable alternative to traditional burial and ...

An alternative to traditional casket burials and cremation is gaining major traction across the country: human composting. The process, which uses science and technology to naturally transform human ...

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 ...

Maryland is now home to the largest human composting facility in the country. Human composting, also known as natural organic reduction, only became legal in the state two years ago. This facility in ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

When Stephanie Burris drives by graveyards near her home in Boulder County, Colorado, she sees thousands of tiny landfills: Concrete boxes filled with non-biodegradable caskets, which are lined with ...

For many families, funeral decisions are no longer only about tradition or cost.