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Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests.

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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It’s one of the last choices any of us will have to make: what to do with our bodies when we die. For ages, the options have been cremation or burial. Now, Georgia has become ...

August Elliott says he’d never thought much about what he’d like done with his body after his death. Then, about two years ago, Elliott’s father died after a long battle with cancer. As he grieved, ...

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 ...

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

Everyone is dying to try this new burial trend. Eco-conscious New Yorkers can soon turn their corpses into compost as part of ...

Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company offering human composting as an alternative to traditional burials or cremations. As... Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose, ...

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 ...

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. NEW JERSEY - Families who want to forgo a ...