Katrina Spade, the founder and CEO of Recompose, showing off the wood shavings and other plant mulch used to help bodies compost in a photo taken in April 2019 Photo: Elaine Thompson (AP) Death is ...

DEATH can be an unsettling thing – especially when you think about what could potentially happen to the body. Although some people ask to be buried and others cremated, you can also choose to be ...

Recompose and the American architectural design firm Olson Kundig Architects have announced that they will open a completely new composting facility in 2021. The World's First Human Composting ...

"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 ...

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KENT, Washington — Somewhere in Kent, tucked anonymously into acres of warehouses and light-industrial workshops, the first full-service human-composting funeral home in the United States is ...

The world's first funeral home dedicated to composting human remains will open in Washington state in 2021. 'Deathcare' company Recompose has spent the last two years working to bring the concept of ...

New York recently became the sixth state to legalize body composting after death. The procedure turns your remains into soil that your loved ones can use to grow a plant. Experts say it is a greener ...

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 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 ...