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 ...

Illinois could soon legalize human composting — a greener death option that's currently illegal in state. Why it matters: ...

Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly inspired but much ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, Oklahoma's House of Representatives signed off on a proposal that would let families legally turn human remains into garden-ready soil. By a 59-37 vote, lawmakers approved House Bill 3660, ...

A TV presenter and author hopes to provide the UK's first human composting service as an alternative to cremation or burial.

THE CHURCH GROUP arrived at the funeral home around noon on Halloween. They’d come for a tour. In ones and twos, they pulled into the Sodo parking lot, some pausing as they climbed out of their cars ...

Human compost on farm land and public land would be banned in Fresno County under a proposed ordinance supervisors will ...

AUBURN, Wash. (KOIN) — “When I saw this I thought this is the thing that’s gonna change the world,” Return Home CEO Micah Truman said as he stood outside a nondescript warehouse tucked away in the ...

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 way to transform dead bodies into soil. She now imagines an alternative ...