Human composting has become popular among people who want an eco-friendly end. Should Ohio legalize it?

During human composting, the body is placed in a specialized polycarbonate vessel that's eight feet long, three and a half feet wide, and three and a half feet tall. As Halloween draws near, images of ...

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 ...

A newly proposed Ohio Senate bill would legalize human composting.

The green option, also called “natural organic reduction,” transforms a body into nutrient-dense soil in just a few weeks.

Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company offering human composting as an alternative to traditional burials or cremations. As part of our TED Radio Hour+ summer series, Spade takes ...

A new Ohio Senate bill would authorize natural organic reduction for humans after death -- also called human composting -- a ...

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 ...

Some other states already allow remains to be converted into compost, and a Republican lawmakers wants Ohio to be next.

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 ...