Volunteers will plant and tend flowers in urns and at graves no longer tended by families. Visitors will appreciate the additional blooms.

For centuries, natural burial has been in existence. The desire for our bodies to return to the earth as naturally as possible is one that we as funeral professionals are ...

Architects and designers including David Chipperfield, Daniel Libeskind, Audrey Large and Philippe Starck have created funeral urns for Alessi's The Last Pot exhibition at Milan design week. Alongside ...

Returning to nature has become a new trend in funeral practices. At the Phoenix Mountain memorial park, each urn is crafted from biodegradable materials designed to dissolve over three to five ...

In a quiet corner of Phoenix Mountain Ecological Cemetery in Luoyang, Henan province, a memorial ceremony was held in late March next to rows of white pines and golden osmanthus trees. Beneath the ...

RUTLAND, Vt. (WCAX) - A Rutland woman says more than a year after her mother’s death, she learned the urn she got from the funeral home was empty. “Grieving never goes away. It’s a horrible ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — This weekend, it’s all about food. So if you’re hungry, don’t cook anything. Put the pots and pans away and come down to the Neal Blaisdell Exhibition Hall where there ...

A team of researchers searching for safe, sustainable, and biodegradable alternatives to plastics presented a new type of transparent material at the American Chemical Society (ACS) spring meeting, ...