PROVIDENCE – A bill to allow the composting of human remains and a method of dealing with bodies known as water cremation passed the House for the second year in a row on May 29, but this time with a ...

New York is the latest state to give residents the option of composting their deceased loved ones instead of a standard burial or cremation. The practice, sometimes called “natural organic reduction,” ...

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DOVER, Del.DOVER, Del. — The Delaware Senate gave final approval Thursday to a bill allowing the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation. The measure passed on a 14-7 vote ...

A container of compost produced from human remains is shown at Recompose, a company that composts human remains into soil, in 2021 in Kent, Washington, south of Seattle. Rhode Island recently proposed ...

In a suburban Denver warehouse tucked between an auto repair shop and a computer recycling business, Seth Viddal is dealing with life and death. He and one of his employees have built a "vessel" they ...

Katrina Spade grew up on a dead-end dirt road in New Hampshire. Her family raised cows, and they ate what they raised. She watched the animals die -- sometimes naturally, sometimes slaughtered for ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (CNN Newsource/KCBS/WKRC) - When people think of compost, piles of rich soil come to mind or collecting table scraps in containers to convert to nutrient rich dirt for the garden.

Governor Jay Inslee, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate whose campaign focus is climate change, could make U.S. history by signing a bill to legalize "human composting" in the state of ...

Tucked away in eastern Alameda County is a sprawling 47-acre site that will soon be transformed into the cemetery of the future, expected to serve the Tri-Valley and surrounding region for the next ...

In ancient times, the nihilistic worldview of pagans regarded this physical world as both beginning and end. For them, death was an excruciating reminder of the futility of human existence. They ...