*(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 ...
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 ...
New Jersey is offering a new option when saying final goodbyes to a loved one – human composting. It works by placing the body inside a vessel that turns it into nutrient-rich soil that can either be ...
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 ...
Last week, it was revealed that the Green-Wood Cemetary was set to become the first cemetery on the East Coast to implement ...
When Lisa Fabbro lost her father a few years ago, the family chose to have him cremated. Back then, Fabbro didn't know there's a way to transform dead bodies into soil. She now imagines an alternative ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy ...
New Jersey could be the 14th state to allow human composting. Advocates say the option is more eco-friendly than burial or cremation. New Jersey resident Jayme Strasburger chose to compost her mother ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Jersey has become the latest state to legalize human composting as an environmentally-friendly alternative to burials and ...
Human composting was developed in Washington state in 2019. In two months, bodies are turned into rich soil. "Water cremation" was also part of the House bill. The bill still must pass through the ...
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 ...
The company Earth Funeral asked Ohio legislators to allow pursue a law that would allow human composting in Ohio.