It turns out that the two most popular American funeral rites are also terrible for the Earth, but don’t worry, because there’s a Kickstarter campaign working on the problem. The Urban Death Project ...

California has joined a growing number of states that allow residents to compost their bodies after death. A new law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday, directs California officials to develop ...

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Micah Truman, CEO of a Washington-based human composting company, poses with a photo of compost made from animal remains to illustrate the process. Photo: Ted S. Warren (AP) There’s a new option for ...

There are a million different ways to die, but only three ways to (legally) dispose of a body. You can be cremated, you can be buried, or you can donate your corpse to a medical school (the school ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Human remains in New York could be legally turned into compost as an alternative to burial or cremation under legislation introduced in the state legislature. Only the state of ...

ALBANY — Human remains in New York could literally be used for pushing up daisies under proposed legislation that would let corpses be used for composting. The measure, introduced in both the Assembly ...

The Green-Wood Cemetery, located in Brooklyn, New York, announced that it will be implementing the option of composting dead bodies into healthy soil. Last week, it was revealed that the Green-Wood ...

New York is poised to become the sixth state to approve an alternative burial process called Natural Organic Reduction — thought to be the first new form of burial in decades and one that has proven ...

Re: the Jan. 22 article "AZ proposal would allow composting of humans." Let me understand. Last year the state legislature had as its top priority the outlawing of drag queens. This year at the top of ...