Death is inevitable. But Seattle-based company Recompose is giving people a new way to exit this mortal coil: Having their remains laid in a tube of mulch and soil and letting bacteria turn them into ...
"Our process gently transforms human remains into rich, fertile soil to return to the earth. We are a first-of-its-kind, open-to-the-public terramation facility," the video continues. It turns out ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — After opening last year, the world’s largest human composting facility was honored as Washington’s Funeral Home of the Year. Return Home, based in Auburn, Wash., is the first ...
Composting isn’t just for leftovers and soiled napkins. You can now compost your body after you die in certain states, turning it into a rich soil. It’s called human composting or natural organic ...
Almost as soon as natural organic reduction, or body composting, became legal in Colorado on September 7, 2021, The Natural Funeral – started by Seth Viddal and his partners in 2019 – began composting ...
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 ...
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — In California, where the massive number of COVID-19 deaths has inundated funeral homes, one legislator hopes the Golden State becomes the next place to legalize the process of ...
Whether we like it or not, death comes for us all. But the way we process death — and how the dead are preserved and cared for — has evolved. “We're finding new ways of adapting our rituals,” Lily ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (CNN Newsource/KCBS/WKRC) - When people think of compost, piles of rich soil come to mind or collecting table scraps in containers to convert to nutrient rich dirt for the garden.
The ultimate in compost-mortem may soon be coming to a funeral home near you. New York state Assembly member Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) and state Sen. Leroy Comrie (D-Queens), have co-sponsored a bill ...
DENVER (KDVR) — With Coloradans gaining a new way of being laid to rest, many area funeral homes are applauding the state’s decision to allow for ‘human composting’, a process that turns a person’s ...
If only figuring out what to do with your body after you die was as simple as TV made it seem. "I'm not going to be buried in a grave," said character Frank Reynolds from "It's Always Sunny in ...