SEATTLE — Leslie Christian recently added unusual language to her living will: After death, she hoped her remains would be reduced to soil and spread around to help out some flowers, or a tree. In ...

THE CHURCH GROUP arrived at the funeral home around noon on Halloween. They’d come for a tour. In ones and twos, they pulled into the Sodo parking lot, some pausing as they climbed out of their cars ...

A new form of “green burial” is gaining attention, but its use along the river raises questions about transparency, ethics ...

A demonstration human composting "vessel" for the deceased, decorated with flowers and compostable mementos, in the USA A TV presenter and author hopes to provide the UK's first human composting ...

In "Compost after Reading," a history of how humans have managed the decomposition process to replenish soil through the ages ...