Katrina Spade, the founder and CEO of Recompose, showing off the wood shavings and other plant mulch used to help bodies compost in a photo taken in April 2019 Photo: Elaine Thompson (AP) Death is ...

"Our process gently transforms human remains into rich, fertile soil to return to the earth. We are a first-of-its-kind, open-to-the-public terramation facility," the video continues. It turns out ...

Almost as soon as natural organic reduction, or body composting, became legal in Colorado on September 7, 2021, The Natural Funeral – started by Seth Viddal and his partners in 2019 – began composting ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After opening last year, the world’s largest human composting facility was honored as Washington’s Funeral Home of the Year. Return Home, based in Auburn, Wash., is the first ...

Composting isn’t just for leftovers and soiled napkins. You can now compost your body after you die in certain states, turning it into a rich soil. It’s called human composting or natural organic ...

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

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 ...

The push for environmental consciousness has sparked the rise of not only green energy initiatives, but now also the move to "green burials" or "human composting" practices over more traditional ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — In California, where the massive number of COVID-19 deaths has inundated funeral homes, one legislator hopes the Golden State becomes the next place to legalize the process of ...

Whether we like it or not, death comes for us all. But the way we process death — and how the dead are preserved and cared for — has evolved. “We're finding new ways of adapting our rituals,” Lily ...

The ultimate in compost-mortem may soon be coming to a funeral home near you. New York state Assembly member Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) and state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-Queens), have co-sponsored a bill ...