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LOS ANGELES (RNS) — In California, where the massive number of COVID-19 deaths has inundated funeral homes, one legislator hopes the Golden State becomes the next place to legalize the process of ...

Recomposition vessels for processing human remains are shown in a gathering space in this artist’s rendering for the Recompose facility in Seattle. (Olson Kundig Image) Recompose, the Seattle-based ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composting isn’t just for leftovers and soiled napkins. You can now compost your body after you die in certain states, turning it ...

No need for an urn or a casket: California will soon offer a new option to be laid to rest — in a steel vessel, surrounded by wood chips and destined to become compost that could fertilize new life.

Somewhere in Kent, tucked anonymously into acres of warehouses and light-industrial workshops, the first full-service human-composting funeral home in the United States is operational. After nearly a ...

What happens to us when we die? It’s one of life’s most enigmatic and profound questions. And—let me clear this up now—I don’t have any insights to offer on the afterlife. But the first renderings of ...

When Howard Fischer eventually dies, he is going to be composted in Seattle. He’ll be wrapped in cloth, placed on a bed of wood chips, and then his family will cover him in alfalfa and flowers. After ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Seattle Times Katrina Spade At the age of 50, Nina Schoen expects to have a long life ahead of her, but the Seattle-based ...