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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composting isn’t just for leftovers and soiled napkins. You can now compost your body after you die in certain states, turning it ...

I distinctly remember the day my younger brother, Wayne, first came home from the hospital. I was 4 years old and sitting on my front steps when my mom laid that little baby in my arms, and I thought: ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — In California, where the massive number of COVID-19 deaths has inundated funeral homes, one legislator hopes the Golden State becomes the next place to legalize the process of ...

When Howard Fischer eventually dies, he is going to be composted in Seattle. He’ll be wrapped in cloth, placed on a bed of wood chips, and then his family will cover him in alfalfa and flowers. After ...

Architectural practice Olson Kundig has unveiled designs for the flagship facility of Recompose, a company that will offer a new and sustainable after-death care service, in which human remains are ...

Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has previously appeared in USA Today and Washington Life Magazine. Colorado may soon ...

It’s a subject some are too squeamish to discuss, but death does come to us all. And when it does, there are options: cremation, crypts, embalming, coffin or shroud burials. An Italian company is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York recently became the sixth state to legalize body composting after death. The procedure turns your remains into soil that ...

Human composting company Recompose is a winner of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for creating a greener death care option. Can you design a legal, respectful, and efficient way to bury deceased loved ...