Ohio has a handful of cemeteries that offer green burials, including Kokosing Nature Preserve in Knox County, Foxfield ...

Depending on where you live — and die — you might have a new choice available to you for how your loved ones will carry out your final wishes. In the past two years, bills that legalize human ...

Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests.

The green option, also called “natural organic reduction,” transforms a body into nutrient-dense soil in just a few weeks.

Some other states already allow remains to be converted into compost, and a Republican lawmakers wants Ohio to be next.

New Jersey has become the latest state to legalize human composting as an environmentally-friendly alternative to burials and cremations. The legislation, signed into law last week by New Jersey Gov.

ATLANTA — State lawmakers are getting closer approving a bill that allows the composting of human remains. It’s an alternative to burial or cremation and has gotten traction in other states. In the ...

A newly proposed Ohio Senate bill would legalize human composting. Brandon Aubrey is reportedly seeking to dramatically reset ...

A new Ohio Senate bill would authorize natural organic reduction for humans after death -- also called human composting -- a ...

Two companion measures, House Bill 591 and Senate Bill 323, were introduced in November 2025 and are designed to authorize natural organic reduction and outline how it would be regulated, according to ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...

There are many reasons to regret the transfer of the Solemnity of the Ascension to the seventh Sunday of the Easter season. Among other things, the transfer shortens the Church’s time to reflect on ...