After death, some Marylanders are choosing to become soil instead of ashes ...

Maryland now has the East Coast’s first human composting facility. Families can keep or donate the resulting soil.

One of the world’s largest human composting facilities just opened near the nation’s capital, according to Axios. Earth ...

The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive home from the Washington state facility that had turned his body into hundreds of ...

Kevin Mathes, a “specialist in soil transformation” for the green internment home Earth Funeral, was speaking to a military veteran about the man’s burial plans. The veteran was exploring the idea of ...

Not everyone has the chance to walk on the land they’ll one day fertilize. Lorna Moore did just that in early October when she visited the property that human-composting company Earth Funeral uses ...

Perhaps one of life’s hardest tasks is deciding what to do with a loved one’s—or even your own—bodily remains. Do you go the cremation route? What about human composting or a green burial? What’s the ...

When Nevadans reach the end of their lives, they’ll now have another option: returning their bodies to Mother Earth as dirt. Earth Funeral, a green burial company based in Washington, opened a ...

Howard County is now home to the first human composting facility on the East Coast.Earth Funeral said its 37,000-square-foot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive home from the ...