QUILCENE — Auburn-based human composting company Earth Funeral is seeking to make a third option available, as an alternative to cremation or traditional burial. “Human composting, otherwise known as ...

Hughes and his colleague Chris Cooper-Hayes, who has a professional background in landscaping, have founded Eterrna, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minnesota has legalized a process that allows people to, quite literally, become soil after they die. The two- to three-month ...

On today's episode of Science Is Amazing, there's apparently a funeral home in Washington state that's turning human bodies into fertile soil. It turns out that Return Home is a relatively new funeral ...

The push for environmental consciousness has sparked the rise of not only green energy initiatives, but now also the move to "green burials" or "human composting" practices over more traditional ...

Did you know that in most U.S. states, burials on private land are legal? So if you’re a homebody, you can spend eternity in your backyard. Of course, there are drawbacks, such as the risk of being ...

One mom carried out her son’s final wish to make the planet greener — by turning his remains into reusable compost for his family to use in a garden. The TikTok, which was posted by the company Return ...

There are people who knew they wanted to work in the funeral industry from an early age, but I was not involved until I was in my late 40s. Before that, I worked in finance between China and the ...

There’s a burgeoning industry that offers “terramation.” Just like cremation is a euphemism for body incineration, terramation simply means composting human remains. The big selling point: It’s a ...

Everyone is dying to try this new burial trend. Eco-conscious New Yorkers can soon turn their corpses into compost as part of a brand-new program at Green-Wood Cemetery — and hundreds are already ...

Life’s final decision has long been a simple binary choice: burial or cremation. Until now. Tucked away in an Auburn industrial park, the world’s first large-scale body-to-soil facility is about to ...