PROVIDENCE – A bill to allow the composting of human remains and a method of dealing with bodies known as water cremation passed the House for the second year in a row on May 29, but this time with a ...

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 ...

*(CNN) — 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Human composting, also known as natural organic reduction or terramation, is not yet legal in Pennsylvania. Neighboring states have been legalizing the process, but since the nascent industry does not ...

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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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

PHILADELPHIA — Paul Meshejian, a 76-year-old retired actor who lives in Philadelphia, said he never liked the idea of his body being embalmed and taking up land in an expensive box. The remaining ...

Paul Meshejian, a 76-year-old retired actor who lives in Chestnut Hill, said he never liked the idea of his body being embalmed and taking up land in an expensive box. The remaining spots in his ...