The Oklahoma State House on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill that would make it legal to use the decomposed and ground-up ...

Legislation is still moving the statehouse is renewing a broader conversation about how Illinoisans want to return their dead to the earth — and whether the state is finally ready to allow human ...

One of the bills lawmakers advanced is aiming to legalize human composting, or in other words, turning human remains into ...

The Illinois House passed 264 bills out of committee this week ahead of Friday’s deadline, kicking the legislative session into high gear with two months to go before adjournment.

On Tuesday, Oklahoma's House of Representatives signed off on a proposal that would let families legally turn human remains into garden-ready soil. By a 59-37 vote, lawmakers approved House Bill 3660, ...

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Oklahoma State Representative Jim Shaw's recent post on X has sparked a heated debate online over a process called Natural ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Green burials, which return the body to the earth without a casket or embalming, can be cheaper than a conventional burial.

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 ...

Imagine a funeral where your loved one is placed on a bed of wood chips and straw inside a steel cylinder vessel. Following a ceremony, the remains are locked in the steel vessel, heated over a period ...