Conservation burials allow for bodies to decompose and become part of the surrounding ecosystem. If you search online for “green death,” the first results might include a “Doctor Who” television ...

Mortality comes calling for all of us eventually. When your time comes, will your burial arrangements help the planet?

Almost as soon as natural organic reduction, or body composting, became legal in Colorado on September 7, 2021, The Natural Funeral – started by Seth Viddal and his partners in 2019 – began composting ...

Steve Ball’s grave was marked not by a granite headstone or marble mausoleum upon the burial of his cremated remains last year, but a flat rock chipped into the shape of a heart. It came from his ...

ATLANTA — A more environmentally friendly way to die. That's how advocates describe the newly legalized body composting process in Colorado. Less than a year after lawmakers in Colorado legalized the ...

In this Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, photo, Seth Viddal, who co-owns The Natural Funeral, stands behind a nearly completed human body composting vessel in Arvada, Colo. On Sept. 7, Colorado became the ...

Law enforcement in Colorado found at least 115 "improperly stored" bodies at a "green" funeral home. The owner of the home tried to cover up how the bodies were stored, per AP. Multiple agencies are ...

When her mother died unexpectedly ten years ago in Tucson, Caitlin Lindquist found herself trying to piece together what her mother would have wanted to be done with her body. After settling on ...

LAFAYETTE, Colo. (AP) — In a suburban Denver warehouse tucked between an auto repair shop and a computer recycling business, Seth Viddal is dealing with life and death. He and one of his employees ...

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — In a suburban Denver warehouse tucked between an auto repair shop and a computer recycling business, Seth Viddal is dealing with life and death. He and one of his employees have ...