PHOENIX — There may soon be a new option in Arizona funeral care: human composting. The process, also called natural decomposition, converts human remains into soil and gives grieving family members ...

The discovery of what appeared to be a human femur and pelvic bone might have unnerved the construction workers who unearthed ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microbes that lurk in decomposing human corpses could help forensic detectives establish a person ...

Human remains that had been decomposing “for an extended period of time” have been discovered just off of a public hiking trail in Utah, police said. The Washington City Police Department announced ...

The opening of the facility comes as policymakers are still trying to legalize human aquamation in the Ocean State.

Chemist says tests of air samples from car trunk don't show human decomposition. June 22, 2011 — -- A forensic chemist testifying in the Casey Anthony trial said today that the car belonging to ...