During human composting, the body is placed in a specialized polycarbonate vessel that's eight feet long, three and a half feet wide, and three and a half feet tall. As Halloween draws near, images of ...

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 ...

Burial and cremation come with some pretty major environmental problems. Both involve huge amounts of energy, resources and ...

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Human composting is now legal in New Jersey. The bill was signed into law last week. It allows for natural organic reduction, also known as human composting. Families who want to forgo a traditional ...

New Jersey could be the 14th state to allow human composting. Advocates say the option is more eco-friendly than burial or cremation. New Jersey resident Jayme Strasburger chose to compost her mother ...

Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...

This story originally appeared on 6abc. New Jersey has become the 14th state in the United States to legalize natural organic reduction, a process commonly known as human composting, offering families ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

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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 ...