Although human composting is already legal in nearby states like New York, Delaware, and Maryland, none of those states have ...

But understanding the nuances, especially those introduced by unnatural deaths, requires forensic taphonomy – the science of ...

Families who want to forgo a traditional burial to put their loved ones to rest in a more natural way can now do so in New ...

No matter where the body is buried, the microbial network behind the cadaver’s decomposition remains essentially the same. Researchers from Colorado State University (CSU) and the University of ...

Imagine a funeral where your loved one is placed on a bed of wood chips and straw inside a steel cylinder vessel. Following a ceremony, the remains are locked in the steel vessel, heated over a period ...

The scavengers are tricky, the smells are gross, and your colleagues are corpses. But some people—mostly women!—love this job.

PHOENIX — There may soon be a new option in Arizona funeral care: human composting. The process, also called natural decomposition, converts human remains into soil and gives grieving family members ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...