Ohio has a handful of cemeteries that offer green burials, including Kokosing Nature Preserve in Knox County, Foxfield Preserve in Stark County and Heritage Acres Memorial Sanctuary near Cincinnati.
During human composting, the body is placed in a specialized polycarbonate vessel that's eight feet long, three and a half feet wide, and three and a half feet tall. As Halloween draws near, images of ...
A new Ohio Senate bill would authorize natural organic reduction for humans after death -- also called human composting -- a ...
A newly proposed Ohio Senate bill would legalize human composting.
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 ...
The green option, also called “natural organic reduction,” transforms a body into nutrient-dense soil in just a few weeks.
An Ohio bill currently under review would allow the "natural organic reduction of remains," which, in simple terms, would ...
(CNN) — 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 ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah may soon be the 13th state to legalize "natural organic reduction," or human composting, as an alternative, lower-cost and eco-friendly way to bury the dead. Sen. Jen Plumb, ...
Most people plan to either be buried or cremated when they die, but there is another, environmentally friendly option: Human composting. "So instead of being cremated and turned into ash, you're ...
Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...
Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company offering human composting as an alternative to traditional burials or cremations. As part of our TED Radio Hour+ summer series, Spade takes ...