The push for environmental consciousness has sparked the rise of not only green energy initiatives, but now also the move to “green burials” or “human composting” practices over more traditional ...

Promessa founder Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak has developed an ecological burial process that allows the body to be restored to the earth as naturally as possible. Image credit: Promessa, Niklas Johansson.

New York is poised to become the sixth state to approve an alternative burial process called Natural Organic Reduction — thought to be the first new form of burial in decades and one that has proven ...

A simple, traditional Jewish funeral costs about $7,500-8,500, according to Joseph Levine & Sons Funeral Home partner Brian Levine. That’s with a plain, wooden casket and no limousines, flowers or ...

VIROQUA - When Gail Frie moved to Viroqua in the 1990s, he noticed a divide in the small western Wisconsin city between older residents, many of them farmers, and younger progressives who'd come there ...

People often don’t like to consider their death or that of a loved one, but it’s an issue everyone will confront at some point. Cremation has become increasingly popular in Kentucky and the nation.

2025 could be the year that Humboldt County sees a new green burial cemetery begin operations. Sacred Groves, a non-profit organization working to establish a conservation burial site in the county, ...