New legislation would permit the natural organic reduction of human remains in Ohio and open the door for a growing industry ...

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This green approach avoids the release of smoke from cremation and the leaking of fluids from burying embalmed bodies.

The green option, also called “natural organic reduction,” transforms a body into nutrient-dense soil in just a few weeks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minnesota has legalized a process that allows people to, quite literally, become soil after they die. The two- to three-month ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — State lawmakers are getting closer approving a bill that allows the composting of human remains. It’s an alternative to burial or cremation and has gotten traction in other states. In the ...