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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 ...

In pursuit of a more eco-friendly future, Green-Wood Cemetery is going back to basics. Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known ...

A 2022 law legalized human composting in California, which is also legal in 14 other states and seems to be growing in ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A local tribe is weighing in on the human compost controversy after a local supervisor broadcast that it was being deposited along the San Joaquin River. “The ...

Utah could legalize human composting as an alternative to burial or cremation after death. A bill on Utah’s Capitol Hill aims to legalize the practice of human composting, as an alternative to burial ...

The San Joaquin River trust overseeing Sumner Peck ranch has been using human remains to fertilize the ground at the farm.

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The San Joaquin River Conservancy and the San Joaquin River Parkway Trust, partners but separate entities, are now at odds. It’s because of the use of human compost ...

When Myf Warhurst arrived in the sleepy town of Eldorado to film the latest episode of Back Roads, she didn't anticipate she ...