Mediation lies ahead Thursday in a lawsuit filed by relatives of a man who allege a Montebello mortuary performed the ...

Montebello Mortuary Suit Over Embalming Dispute Headed to Mediation ...

Viral video sparks debate on human composting. Costs, 14 legal states, backyard rules, and how bodies become soil for trees.

Losing weight was a slow process involving different diets and exercise regimes. Eventually, I discovered an approach to ...

Interest in body disposal options that are better for the planet has risen in recent years, according to research .

Gunther von Hagens, who invented plastination, a method of preserving bodies by replacing their natural fluids with polymers, ...

After a resident recently approached the town about the process of burying a person on private property Southwick's Health Director Caileen Simonds learned the process wasn’t quick, or easy, or ...

Bergman: There is a surgical aspect to restoration and to restorative art: suturing wounds, resetting bones. But it requires a wide variety of skills, including elements of sculpture and cosmetology.

SOUTHWICK — After a resident recently approached the town about the process of burying a person on private property, the town’s health director, Caileen Simonds, learned the process wasn’t quick, easy ...

The largest human composting facility in the nation is soon opening in Maryland, with capacity to handle 2,000 bodies a year. It's meeting a growing demand for eco-friendly interment options.

In 2020, Recompose was the first U.S. company to develop the technology needed for the commercial composting of human bodies, disrupting a funeral industry that had been largely unchanged for decades.