“Wait, let me get this straight,” my 14-year old said. “Your naked body would just rot on the ground? No thank you!” This might actually be a teenager’s ...

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Imagine a funeral where your loved one is placed on a bed of wood chips and straw inside a steel cylinder vessel. Following a ceremony, the remains are locked in the steel vessel, heated over a period ...

Body farms are facilities where corpses are placed in a variety of environments and scenarios to study how they decompose. This research can help forensic scientists and police figure out what has ...

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 ...

Natural Organic Reduction is a newer procedure to compost human bodies instead of using caskets or cremation. It involves leaving the body in a special vessel with a plant-based material like wood ...

Students Victoria Deal, Carlee Green and Kadri Greene clean the bones of a donor in the processing lab. Few bear witness to human decomposition. We embalm and seal bodies in caskets, and bury them six ...

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 ...