Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests.

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.

Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known as human composting.

New Jersey could be the 14th state to allow human composting. Advocates say the option is more eco-friendly than burial or cremation. New Jersey resident Jayme Strasburger chose to compost her mother ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...

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There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...

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