Global Breaking News - Monday, September 28, 2026

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Outside of the city of Denver, Colorado, a large industrial building sits between an auto repair business and a used computer business. In that building, a man deals daily with life and death. Seth Viddal and his employees have built a burial container, or “vessel.” Recently they told reporters from the Associated Press that they hope this vessel will be the start of a more environmentally friendly type of burial science. This process will include the natural breakdown of the human body. Those in the burial business call this body composting. “It is a natural process where the body is returned to an elemental level over a short period of time,” said Viddal. He said it is similar to composting of food and yard waste. “This is the same process, but done with a human body inside of a vessel, and in our case, in a controlled environment.”