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 ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Human composting, an alternative to burial or cremation, is now legal in Nevada. A new law took full effect on January 1 allowing your body to be turned into soil when you die ...

New York is the latest state to give residents the option of composting their deceased loved ones instead of a standard burial or cremation. The practice, sometimes called "natural organic reduction," ...

Most people plan to either be buried or cremated when they die, but there is another, environmentally friendly option: Human composting. "So instead of being cremated and turned into ash, you're ...

DOVER, Del. (CBS/AP) - Supporters of human composting say it's a more environmentally friendly and cheaper alternative to being buried in a coffin or cremation - it uses less energy and avoids ...

Katrina Spade grew up on a dead-end dirt road in New Hampshire. Her family raised cows, and they ate what they raised. She watched the animals die -- sometimes naturally, sometimes slaughtered for ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday allowing funeral homes in the state to use a process called “alkaline hydrolysis” to liquefy human remains — a more earth friendly form of cremation ...

Traditional means of cremation, and the only legal method in Texas, is with the use of a furnace, which burns the human remains into ashes and mineral fragments, which most times are transferred to an ...