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For $595, a company will transform a dead person or pet into smooth 'parting...
Summary List PlacementThe coronavirus has killed more than 210,000 people in the US, bringing with it a surge in cremations to alleviate crushing demand on a funeral industry unprepared for a deadly...
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The world's first human-composting facility is set to open in 2021. Families...
Earlier this year, Washington passed a bill that makes it the first US state to allow human composting. The law will go into effect in 2020. Seattle-based company Recompose intends to open the world's...
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A remote Himalayan lake holds up to 800 skeletons from people who died 1,000...
A remote lake nicknamed "Skeleton Lake" sits more than 16,500 feet up in the Indian Himalayas.The lake, which is actually called Roopkund, is the final resting place of up to 800 human skeletons and...
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As a corpse decomposes, it fidgets for more than a year, researchers found....
Using time-lapse photography, scientists in Australia have discovered that corpses move around for at least a year after death.The research showed that — over the course of 17 months — decomposing...
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A California company is burying people's ashes under trees instead of...
Better Place Forests is a California-based company that helps people bury their loved ones' ashes under trees in protected forests.Sandy Gibson, Better Place's co-founder and chief executive, said the...
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Dead bodies litter Mount Everest because it's so dangerous and expensive to...
11 people have died summiting Mount Everest this spring.The deaths this year bring the total Everest death toll to more than 300 people since explorers first started climbing the mountain in the early...
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Washington State to become the first to legalize human composting as an...
Washington State is the first in the country to legalize human composting as an alternative to a traditional burial or cremation.The bill, SB 5001 "concerning human remains," was signed by Gov. Jay...
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A warrior-prince's elaborate tomb found near London could be the British...
British archaeologists discovered the tomb of an Anglo-Saxon in the countryside outside of London.The 1,400-year-old tomb contained myriad artifacts, including weapons, a lyre, gold coins, and drinking...
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Washington state is on the cusp of legalizing eco-friendly 'human composting'...
Washington's state legislature passed a bill legalizing a burial alternative known as "natural organic reduction," which turns bodies into soil within weeks. If Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signs the...
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Urns filled with human ash washed up on Dutch beaches after falling off a...
Three urns filled with human ash washed up on Dutch beaches in Katwijk and Noordwijk over the last week. The urns had fallen overboard a ship from the Dutch shipping company Trip Scheepvaart, after a...
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Scientists can't figure out why a child's skeleton was found buried in a cave...
50 years ago, the bones of a child were discovered in a shallow grave in a cave in Poland.Researchers are perplexed about why the child was buried in the cave, as well as why it was found with the...
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Americans are embracing new, inventive ways to dispose of their bodies after...
Most Americans have previously accepted a limited set of options for their burial, but that's changing.Americans are becoming more willing to embrace new funeral and burial practices.Laws are changing...
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People have started dissolving loved ones' dead bodies as a greener...
Alkaline hydrolysis liquefies the body using water and lye. It's considered a "greener" approach to burial than cremation.While it hasn't caught on widely yet, some consider it the burial method of the...
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Texas is the latest state to require abortion providers to bury fetal remains
Texas became the latest state Mondayto implement a controversial new rule requiring fetal remains be buried or cremated, rather than disposed of as medical waste, which reproductive rights advocates...
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The future of death may be your body in these biodegradable eggs
Dying isn't always an Earth-friendly business.Decomposing bodies in coffins buried in the ground can emit large amounts of methane, a harmful greenhouse gas.That, along with the formaldehyde that's...
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A mass grave has yielded more clues about the Great Plague that wiped out...
Researchers just discovered the culprit behind the Great Plague of Britain, which claimed one-quarter of the country's population more than 350 years ago.While excavating the plot for a new...
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This $1,500 'burial suit' could replace coffins
Imagine that instead of burying your loved one in a coffin, you dressed them in a garment that ate away at their remains, leaving almost no trace in the dirt where they once laid.It might sound a...
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The Orlando mass shooter has been buried, and some people are outraged about...
The body of the man behind the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, has been buried in a South Florida cemetery, and the family members of people buried near him aren't happy about...
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Traditional burials are ruining the planet — here’s what we should do instead
Half a billion people are going to die in the next decade — and we can't keep cramming their caskets into the Earth.Every year, tens of millions of the 7.4 billion people on Earth will die.Some will be...
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A Cincinnati cemetery is offering 'green burials' — here's why they're a...
Spring Grove cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio is slated to open a "green burial" section — the first of its kind in the region, according to a blog post by the Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church.(The...
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