ALBANY, N.Y. -- Human remains in New York could be legally turned into compost as an alternative to burial or cremation under legislation introduced in the state legislature. Only the state of ...

Promessa founder Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak has developed an ecological burial process that allows the body to be restored to the earth as naturally as possible. Image credit: Promessa, Niklas Johansson.

The Georgia legislature passed a bill to regulate the composting of human remains. The bill, sponsored by a funeral home director, aims to provide an alternative method for disposing of the dead.

If asked to think about what will happen to our bodies when we die, many of us would likely envision the ceremonial aspects of a funeral, wake and burial. We might instinctively gloss over the other ...

Re: the Jan. 22 article "AZ proposal would allow composting of humans." Let me understand. Last year the state legislature had as its top priority the outlawing of drag queens. This year at the top of ...

New Jersey is living up to its nickname even in death. The Garden State approved a bill that legalizes human composting, an alternative to traditional burials in which a corpse is transformed into ...

As I was eating breakfast on April 14 while reading The News, my eyes fell on this headline: “A project to turn corpses into compost.” Immediately I had a visceral response that turned my stomach and ...