During human composting, the body is placed in a specialized polycarbonate vessel that's eight feet long, three and a half feet wide, and three and a half feet tall. As Halloween draws near, images of ...

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 ...

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Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known as human composting.

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...