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 ...

Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...

Martha Stewart has sparked conversation after revealing she would like to be composted after death, describing the idea as an ...

Conventional burial methods are profoundly energy and resource intensive. In contrast, NOR returns the body to the earth by reflecting the natural cycles, enriching soil and supporting new life. It’s ...

It's been six years since the Ford government asked the public to weigh in on the practice of human composting. Across the ...

A proposal to turn human remains into soil as an alternative to current funerary options is approaching reality. The Urban Death Project is currently crowdfunding its prototype, with a potential ...

Katrina Spade is the founder of the Urban Death Project. She is raising money on Kickstarter for the design and implementation of the first ever human composting system.

Tell us: What do you want to happen to your body after you die? Do you know what want to have happen to your body after you die? Do you want to be cremated, buried, or given an epic Viking burial?

When Katrina Spade entered her 30s, mortality loomed in her thoughts. As she researched what would happen to her body after she died, she realized that standard burial and cremation processes were ...

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