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

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

Maryland is now home to the largest human composting facility in the country.

The green burial boom is here — a huge "human composting" site just opened outside D.C., bringing a fast-growing, ...

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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 some funeral parlors, physical casket showrooms could die out and move to a virtual realm — the space instead used for “water cremation” machines that break down a human body into bone fragments ...

When Lisa Fabbro lost her father a few years ago, the family chose to have him cremated. Back then, Fabbro didn't know there's a way to transform dead bodies into soil. She now imagines an alternative ...

Oklahoma lawmakers approved a bill to legalize natural organic reduction — the composting of human remains. Gov. Kevin Stitt ...