During human composting, the body is placed in a specialized polycarbonate vessel that's eight feet long, three and a half feet wide, and three and a half feet tall. As Halloween draws near, images of ...

Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known as human composting.

Human composting has become popular among people who want an eco-friendly end. Should Ohio legalize it?

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 ...

Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose, a company offering human composting as an alternative to traditional burials or cremations. As... Katrina Spade is the founder and CEO of Recompose, ...

New Jersey could be the 14th state to allow human composting. Advocates say the option is more eco-friendly than burial or cremation. New Jersey resident Jayme Strasburger chose to compost her mother ...

A new Ohio Senate bill would authorize natural organic reduction for humans after death -- also called human composting -- a process through which human remains are naturally converted into soil.

As Halloween draws near, images of burials gone wrong can easily become horror movie fare: hands bursting from the ground; the creaky, cobwebbed casket containing a rotting corpse; the unraveling ...