Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A demonstration human composting "vessel" decorated with compostable mementos on top of a bed of straw at a funeral home in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bill still must pass through the Senate, where it failed last year, to get signed. H5110, introduced by Rep. Michelle McGaw, D ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human composting and water cremation could be introduced in England and Wales, a new report has suggested. Burial, cremation and ...

A funeral director is calling for more environmentally-friendly methods of body disposal to be legalised. Andrew Purves said traditional fire cremation used a lot of energy and that ground was ...

Water cremation and human composting could soon be offered as an alternative to traditional funerals. A Law Commission consultation is proposing legal approval of new methods beyond burial, cremation, ...

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 ...

In some funeral parlors, physical casket showrooms could die out and move to a virtual realm — the space instead used for “water cremation” machines that break down a human body into bone fragments ...

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