The Oklahoma State House on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill that would make it legal to use the decomposed and ground-up ...

Legislation is still moving the statehouse is renewing a broader conversation about how Illinoisans want to return their dead to the earth — and whether the state is finally ready to allow human ...

One of the bills lawmakers advanced is aiming to legalize human composting, or in other words, turning human remains into ...

The Illinois House passed 264 bills out of committee this week ahead of Friday’s deadline, kicking the legislative session into high gear with two months to go before adjournment.

On Tuesday, Oklahoma's House of Representatives signed off on a proposal that would let families legally turn human remains into garden-ready soil. By a 59-37 vote, lawmakers approved House Bill 3660, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Lisa Fabbro lost her father a few years ago, the family chose to have him cremated. Back then, Fabbro didn't know there's a ...

Oklahoma State Representative Jim Shaw's recent post on X has sparked a heated debate online over a process called Natural ...

Green burials, which return the body to the earth without a casket or embalming, can be cheaper than a conventional burial.

A Fresno County supervisor says he’ll introduce an ordinance to halt a type of human composting he recently learned has been used near the San Joaquin River, but advocates say he’s jumping the gun ...

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 ...