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? Do you want to be cremated, buried, or given an epic Viking burial?

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 ...

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 ...

When Michelle Skaff dies, she's going to turn into dirt. The 31-year-old is a client of Return Home, a Seattle-area human composting facility. Its futuristic-looking vessels full of organic material ...

Want to be buried or cremated? For Martha Stewart, there is a third option: composted.

You probably know that composting banana peels and eggshells can help reduce your negative impact on the environment. But did you know that, once you die, you can do that with your body, too? Human ...

A large faith conference is pushing back on "green composting" as a way to handle human remains. It is improper to compost human remains and the practice is disrespectful to the body of the deceased, ...

(NEXSTAR) – When we die, one of few things may occur: we’ll be cremated, placed in a casket and buried, or donated for research. There are other options — like being shot into space or put in a casket ...

Katrina Spade is the founder or Recompose, the world's first human composting enterprise based near Seattle. Families bring loved ones to Recompose where their remains are converted into nutrient-rich ...

A bill allowing human composting in Delaware now waits on Gov. John Carney’s desk after the Delaware Senate gave final approval for the alternative funeral practice. House Bill 162, an effort to allow ...