Starting next month, people who want to enter the afterlife in soil form have an option in metro Atlanta. Driving the news: A ...

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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 ...

When Dennis Cunningham was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wanted his death to reflect the values he lived by. As a civil rights lawyer, Cunningham defended the Black Panthers, AIDS protestors, and ...

Tucked into a nondescript warehouse development in Howard County, along winding roads lined with semi trucks, sits a facility dedicated to the dead. It offers a newly legal servic ...

As calls to legalise human composting grow, there are signs Australia’s funeral cultures are already changing.

DOVER, Del.DOVER, Del. — The Delaware Senate gave final approval Thursday to a bill allowing the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation. The measure passed on a 14-7 vote ...

Some call it natural organic reduction. Others prefer soil transformation. It’s also known as terramation. In some corners, recomposition. Those who err toward the literal might call it human ...

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