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 ...

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 ...

Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...

Tell us: What do you want to happen to your body after you die? Do you know what want to have happen to your body after you die? Do you want to be cremated, buried, or given an epic Viking burial?

SEATTLE -- Ashes to ashes, guts to dirt. Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation Tuesday making Washington the first state to approve composting as an alternative to burying or cremating human remains. It ...

Last week was a difficult milestone for Sean Hanna of Encino. It marked one year since he lost his partner Stephen Staunton to brain cancer. Staunton was an avid gardener. He was also a really big fan ...

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 ...

LAUREL, DE -- Delawareans in Sussex County have strong opinions about the alternative burial practice of composting human bodies potentially becoming legal in the First State. Human composting is an ...

The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive home from the Washington state facility that had turned his body into hundreds of ...

When Dennis Cunningham was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wanted his death to reflect the values he lived by. As a civil rights lawyer, Cunningham defended the Black Panthers, AIDS protestors, and ...

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey has become the 14th state to allow the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed the legislation last week. It ...