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After decades working in mortuaries, a campaigner 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 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 ...

A new form of “green burial” is gaining attention, but its use along the river raises questions about transparency, ethics ...

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 ...

Oklahoma is moving closer to becoming the 15th state to legalize "natural organic reduction," a process more commonly known ...

Legislation is still moving the statehouse is renewing a broader conversation about how Illinoisans want to return their dead ...

Monica Eng, reporter with Axios Chicago, joins Lisa Dent to discuss Illinois lawmakers discussing human composting. Human ...

A Fresno County supervisor says he’ll introduce an ordinance to halt a type of human composting he recently learned has been used near the San Joaquin River, but advocates say he’s jumping the gun ...

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

A demonstration human composting "vessel" for the deceased, decorated with flowers and compostable mementos, in the USA A TV presenter and author hopes to provide the UK's first human composting ...

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