In 2020, Recompose was the first U.S. company to develop the technology needed for the commercial composting of human bodies, ...

The company is pushing to legalize human composting operations in NC, with Charlotte a possibility for a new $10-million ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advocates say human composting offers a sustainable, greener alternative to burials and crematoriums, and can also provide a cheaper and equitable option after death.

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 ...

Before Janet Batiansila’s husband, Walter, died last year, the man raised in the French Quarter of New Orleans jokingly wished to be “dragged to a bayou and eaten by alligators.” ...