A bold, carbon negative alternative to caskets and cremation. That’s how they put it at Transcend, a “green burial company” that’s planting people (and pets) as trees when they die. It’s a means to ...

Your environmental footprint doesn’t end when you die: Traditional burial uses toxic chemicals like formaldehyde along with steel and concrete, and the acres of grass in cemeteries use fertilizer and ...

Cemeteries around California offer tree burial — one of several eco-friendly alternatives to traditional burial or cremation. (Ross May / Los Angeles Times) When a person dies, many people may think ...

Bodies don't go into the pods. Rather, cremated human remains are placed in the biodegradable, plastic-derived urns, and then those urns get covered in soil. After that, a pre-existing tree gets ...

All things come to an end, including our lives. Over the generations and around the world, deathcare has taken many turns. From Viking send-offs in flaming boats to modern-day caskets and cremations, ...

In 2019, Matthew Kochmann was thinking about death. Specifically his own death, and whether it would be possible for him, upon the occasion of his demise, to be a tree. Transcend promises that when ...

For a few years, I worked as an assistant to a woman who owned a number of funeral homes, so I'm pretty well versed with funeral-speak. Jealous? While most people use the word coffin, it's actually ...