The premise of a green burial, say advocates of the practice, is to return us to the Earth, replenish it and help it to outlive us.

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

With climate change gaining prominence, there’s a concerted effort around ensuring eco-friendly, well, everything – including end-of-life processes. While traditional fire cremation burns fossil fuels ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER — Colorado may be one of the first ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

ATLANTA — A more environmentally friendly way to die. That's how advocates describe the newly legalized body composting process in Colorado. Less than a year after lawmakers in Colorado legalized the ...