Rivero is a funeral director at Pacific Interment Service in Emeryville, and the futuristic machine is an aquamation system. It uses water to dissolve every part of the human body except for the bones ...

He observed cremations and realised that certain body parts require more wood than others and so designed a cremation box ...

Alkaline hydrolysis relies on water and alkaline chemicals to turn a dead body into bone fragments and a neutral effluent.

The crematorium also will be built in a way to prevent the emission of any smoke or odor from the facility, said Jakob Pardhun of Cremation Systems. Patel said he expects construction to start in ...

Piedmont Funeral Home is the first local funeral service to offer a water-based cremation service, called Aquamation, and one of less than a handful statewide that offer it. Jill Doss-Raines is The ...

Clients of Ballard-Sunder Funeral & Cremation will have the option to pursue an environmentally-friendly alternative to cremation next year, when the Jordan funeral home begins offering ...