Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When someone dies, there are a few options for how to lay someone to rest like a straight burial, cremation, and now something a ...

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An Elkridge, Maryland, company is offering options beyond burial or cremation — through what it says is the first human composting facility on the East Coast.

August Elliott says he’d never thought much about what he’d like done with his body after his death. Then, about two years ago, Elliott’s father died after a long battle with cancer. As he grieved, ...

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 ...

Ashes to ashes, dust to plant feed: an Australian state is edging closer to a greener alternative to traditional burials ...

As calls to legalise human composting grow, there are signs Australia’s funeral cultures are already changing.

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Besides burial and cremation, there is an emerging third option for Minnesotans after they die — terramation. A new law goes into effect July 1 in Minnesota, stating that ...

Known as "organic human reduction" under Georgia law, human composting is basically turning a body into soil instead of ashes as with typical cremation. According to Brittanica, it typically involves ...

August Elliott says he’d never thought much about what he’d like done with his body after his death. Then, about two years ago, Elliott’s father died after a long battle with cancer. As he grieved, ...