Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Micah Truman, CEO of a Washington-based human composting company, poses with a photo of compost made from animal remains to illustrate the process. Photo: Ted S. Warren (AP) There’s a new option for ...

ALBANY — Human remains in New York could literally be used for pushing up daisies under proposed legislation that would let corpses be used for composting. The measure, introduced in both the Assembly ...

The Georgia legislature passed a bill to regulate the composting of human remains. The bill, sponsored by a funeral home director, aims to provide an alternative method for disposing of the dead.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Human remains in New York could be legally turned into compost as an alternative to burial or cremation under legislation introduced in the state legislature. Only the state of ...

The Green-Wood Cemetery, located in Brooklyn, New York, announced that it will be implementing the option of composting dead bodies into healthy soil. Last week, it was revealed that the Green-Wood ...

New York is poised to become the sixth state to approve an alternative burial process called Natural Organic Reduction — thought to be the first new form of burial in decades and one that has proven ...

New Jersey is living up to its nickname even in death. The Garden State approved a bill that legalizes human composting, an alternative to traditional burials in which a corpse is transformed into ...

Re: the Jan. 22 article "AZ proposal would allow composting of humans." Let me understand. Last year the state legislature had as its top priority the outlawing of drag queens. This year at the top of ...

As I was eating breakfast on April 14 while reading The News, my eyes fell on this headline: “A project to turn corpses into compost.” Immediately I had a visceral response that turned my stomach and ...