Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made ...

Promessa founder Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak has developed an ecological burial process that allows the body to be restored to the earth as naturally as possible. Image credit: Promessa, Niklas Johansson.

The push for environmental consciousness has sparked the rise of not only green energy initiatives, but now also the move to “green burials” or “human composting” practices over more traditional ...

Spouses qualify for burial with the veteran even if the spouse remarried after the veteran's death. That detail surprises many people. A surviving spouse who remarries doesn't lose eligibility for ...

New York is poised to become the sixth state to approve an alternative burial process called Natural Organic Reduction — thought to be the first new form of burial in decades and one that has proven ...

2025 could be the year that Humboldt County sees a new green burial cemetery begin operations. Sacred Groves, a non-profit organization working to establish a conservation burial site in the county, ...

This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Reporting project. Along a winding, bright green moss trail in Steelmantown Cemetery is a small ...