Human composting, or natural organic reduction, is a process that transforms the human body into soil. It typically involves placing bodies in a container and covering them with carbon and ...

Shari Forbes: We have already made advances in terms of understanding the decomposition process since the 1980s when the first facility opened in Tennessee. So what we knew then was very little ...

"It's just an accelerated process of natural decomposition," says Nora Menkin, executive director of People's Memorial, a non-profit funerary services advocacy group in Seattle, Washington.

Colorado state inspectors discovered roughly 20 decomposing bodies stashed in a hidden room of a funeral home manned by a ...

Law enforcement officials hosted a press conference Aug. 21 to discuss findings in the ongoing criminal investigation into ...

To test the process, Washington State University conducted a study in which six bodies donated for research were put in a rotating container and wrapped in organic materials like alfalfa, then ...

"New experiments reveal the types of bacteria involved in human decomposition." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 30 October 2013. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 10 / 131030185930.htm>.

By analyzing exactly which chemicals are emitted by the body at which stage of the decomposition process, scientists hope to design a tool that could accurately detect different gases, helping to ...