Body composting is an alternative to traditional burial or cremation that has spurred the interest of many Texans.

Before a bill signing last week, New Jersey residents who were interested would have to seek the process out of state.

Although human composting is already legal in nearby states like New York, Delaware, and Maryland, none of those states have ...

Five years after Washington became the first state to legalize natural organic reduction, 13 more states have approved the ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to legalize human composting as an environmentally-friendly alternative to burials and ...

Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the U.S. states that have legalized the process of converting human bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show “respect for 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 ...

The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive home from the Washington state facility that had turned his body into hundreds of ...

TRENTON — How would you like to spend eternity nourishing a flower garden, or being part of a nature trail or a patch of a grassy hillside? New Jersey lawmakers are considering whether to allow the ...

New Jersey is living up to its nickname even in death. The Garden State approved a bill that legalizes human composting, an ...

New Jersey has become the 14th state to allow the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation ...

Human composting, an ecological alternative to burial or cremation, will become legal in Georgia beginning July 1. Governor Brian Kemp signed Senate Bill 241 into law May 9, making Georgia the 13th ...