Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minnesota has legalized a process that allows people to, quite literally, become soil after they die. The two- to three-month ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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?

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 ...

Human composting was developed in Washington state in 2019. In two months, bodies are turned into rich soil. "Water cremation" was also part of the House bill. The bill still must pass through the ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

A bill in the Georgia legislature would regulate "organic human reduction facilities," or facilities that compost human remains. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Rick Williams, argues that regulation is ...