“I’ll compost your corpse%E2%80%9D has to be one of the most unusual offers I’ve ever received. It didn’t come from some bloke whose pint I’d just knocked ...

Corpses could soon be turned into compost and used as plant food if a radical new plan to offer a new way to bury the dead succeeds. Called the Urban Death Project, it proposes corpses are placed into ...

A WORLD-FIRST facility that turns human bodies into compost will be up and running in 2021. US “deathcare” firm Recompose will offer a “human composting” service that gently converts people’s remains ...

Micah Truman is on the verge of opening the world’s largest facility that turns corpses into compost, then returns it to families (Pictures: KOIN) A groundbreaking new facility that will be the ...

Promessa founder Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak has developed an ecological burial process that allows the body to be restored to the earth as naturally as possible. Image credit: Promessa, Niklas Johansson.

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.

Residents of Washington state may soon be able to compost more than food scraps and leaves. Human remains could be added to that pile of mulch if the governor signs a bill recently passed by the state ...

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 ...

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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 ...

I bring grave news: a legal dispute compels me to disturb the remains of Ethical Man. Regular Newsnight viewers and readers of this blog will recall that the corpse of Ethical Man was laid to rest by ...

The process, dubbed "recomposition", is to be offered as an alternative to a traditional burial or cremation. Once placed inside aerated tubes and covered with wood chips, bodies can be decomposed and ...