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COMMENTARY: The Ascension is crucial in the Catholic Church’s response to the crisis of our time, which is the crisis in the very idea of the human person.
You may have heard of environmentally friendly options for funerals and burials, but not everyone is familiar with human ...
Minnesota has a slew of state laws taking effect, but one in particular may be unfamiliar to many: terramation, also known as ...
An alternative to burial or cremation — allowing dead bodies to break down into a soil-like product — is just a signature away from reality in New Jersey.
Return Home, the nation's leading provider of human composting, also known as Natural Organic Reduction (NOR), announced today that it is actively planning to open a new facility in Minnesota. This ...
The New Jersey State Legislature is on the verge of legalizing human composting, a process that transforms bodies into soil.
Washington is expected to become the first state to legalize an environmentally-friendly burial alternative that turns bodies into soil within weeks. A bill allowing “natural organic reduction ...
And so earlier this year, the Washington State Legislature passed a bill legalizing human composting. Washington is the first state to legalize turning the dead into compost, perhaps the first such ...
Washington became the first state in the nation to legalize human composting in 2019, followed by Colorado and Oregon in 2021. Vermont legalized the practice in June 2022.
Washington legalized the practice of human composting in 2019. Here's how it works and how much it costs. Author: Jen York Published: 8:10 AM PST March 3, 2021 Updated: 8:25 AM PST March 3, 2021 ...
Washington legalized the practice of human composting in 2019. Here's how it works and how much it costs.
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — As the nation’s first human-composting funeral home is now operational in the state of Washington, death care specialists say this new and environmentally friendly ...