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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 ...

In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

New Jersey could be the 14th state to allow human composting. Advocates say the option is more eco-friendly than burial or cremation. New Jersey resident Jayme Strasburger chose to compost her mother ...

Utah could legalize human composting as an alternative to burial or cremation after death. A bill on Utah’s Capitol Hill aims to legalize the practice of human composting, as an alternative to burial ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The San Joaquin River Conservancy and the San Joaquin River Parkway Trust, partners but separate entities, are now at odds. It’s because of the use of human compost ...

A 2022 law legalized human composting in California, which is also legal in 14 other states and seems to be growing in ...

The San Joaquin River Parkway Trust will no longer use human compost at its 76-acre property in Fresno County. The agreement ...