Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tell us: What do you want to happen to your body after you die? Do you know what want to have happen to your body after you die?

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 ...

From the outside, the grocery-store-size facility that sits off a highway a short drive from Baltimore looks like a Costco store. Inside is the equipment for one of the funeral industry’s ...

An alternative to traditional casket burials and cremation is gaining major traction across the country: human composting. The process, which uses science and technology to naturally transform human ...

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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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minnesotans will soon no longer need to leave the state to return their remains to nature by converting them into nutrient-rich ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to legalize human composting as an environmentally-friendly alternative to burials and cremations. The legislation, signed into law last week by New Jersey Gov.