Removal teams "trudged through layers of human decomposition on the floor" Derrick Johnson, whose mother’s body was one of 189 left to decay in the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., holds photos of her in Colorado Springs,...

In what could be a first for our area, Green-Wood Cemetery is Brooklyn is planning to offer so-called "human composting." Some say it's an environmentally conscious way to care for the dead, but not everyone agrees with this approach to...

OKLAHOMA CITY, (KOKH) - An Oklahoma couple has filed a lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma state law that restricts who can sell caskets in Oklahoma. Currently, the law requires a funeral director license to sell caskets, which the couple says would...

A decade after her mother’s death, Sarah Ebner reflects on how Jewish rituals helped her cope with her loss “You live with loss for ever,” she explains. “Time going by proves that as long as one of you is living...

Green-Wood Cemetery is moving forward to become the first cemetery in New York state to offer natural organic reduction. It's an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional burial and cremation. “As the years go, by we’ve evolved in different ways we...

Green-Wood Cemetery will start offering a service called Natural Organic Reduction, where a human body is decomposed naturally and turned into soil New Yorkers will soon have another eco-friendly burial option in Brooklyn: turning a body into nutrient-rich soil. The...

I firmly believe that our friends and extended family want to reach out, want to help, want to walk alongside as we grieve the death of our child. I am also convinced that many of them don’t because they don’t...

PBS Utah provides service to one of the largest geographic areas of any public television station in the country. PBS Utah reaches portions of five states Utah Bill Would Legalize Human Composting by Lauren Steinbrecher • Published on February 3,...