Ohio has a handful of cemeteries that offer green burials, including Kokosing Nature Preserve in Knox County, Foxfield ...

Some other states already allow remains to be converted into compost, and a Republican lawmakers wants Ohio to be next.

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A local supervisor is calling for change after discovering that “Human Compost” is being deposited along the San Joaquin River. According to Earth Funeral, human ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DENVER (KDVR) — With Coloradans gaining a new way of being laid to rest, many area funeral homes are applauding the state’s decision to allow for ‘human composting’, a process that turns a person’s ...