PROVIDENCE – Bills to allow the composting of human bodies as an alternative to cremation and burial are back before the General Assembly this year, as the practice continues to gain legalization ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — Rather than being burned, embalmed or interred, some Americans are pushing to be laid to rest using an alternative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Lisa Fabbro lost her father a few years ago, the family chose to have him cremated. Back then, Fabbro didn't know there's a ...

In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

A TV presenter and author hopes to provide the UK's first human composting service as an alternative to cremation or burial. Human composting, also known as terramation, is when the body of a person ...

New Jersey has become the 14th state to allow the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation, the AP reports. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed the legislation on Sept. 11.

In some funeral parlors, physical casket showrooms could die out and move to a virtual realm — the space instead used for “water cremation” machines that break down a human body into bone fragments ...

The question, “if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?” might be more meaningful in Ohio in the future if a new bill passes into law. The legislation would allow human composting. Sen.

Rhode Island lawmakers are considering bills to legalize human composting and water cremation. Human composting, or natural organic reduction, uses organic materials to break down a body in about 60 ...