Rhode Island's House passed a bill to allow human composting for the second year in a row and "water cremation" for the first time.

Rhode Island lawmakers are considering bills to legalize human composting and water cremation. Human composting, or natural ...

In some funeral parlors, physical casket showrooms could die out and move to a virtual realm — the space instead used for “water cremation” machines that break down a human body into bone fragments ...

When Stephanie Burris drives by graveyards near her home in Boulder County, Colorado, she sees thousands of tiny landfills: Concrete boxes filled with non-biodegradable caskets, which are lined with ...