The Law Commission recommends new burial methods are approved through secondary legislation.

A new facility in Maryland is the largest human composting center in America. It turns human remains into soil in just 30 ...

(NEXSTAR) – When we die, one of few things may occur: we’ll be cremated, placed in a casket and buried, or donated for research. There are other options — like being shot into space or put in a casket ...

The debate over human composting was filled with cannibalistic puns from detractors, who said bodies deserve more dignity ...

Kristoffer Hughes has spent 32 years working with the dead. And he thinks we've been doing it all wrong. Treated as a “problem to be solved”, bodies are embalmed with formaldehyde to preserve their ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly ...

House lawmakers are set to vote on legislation that would allow human composting and water cremation in Rhode Island.