A suburban woman was forced to wait more than two years to get her mother's remains from an embattled south suburban ...

A family is suing a Manhattan funeral home for $17 million for allegedly losing an 83-year-old woman’s ashes last year, ...

Attorneys have filed 28 lawsuits in Indiana alleging negligence and the mishandling of human remains and plan to file dozens more in the next few days. Family members say that their loved ones' ...

For years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints frowned upon cremation, insisting that burial was theologically ...

A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has admitted his role in the theft and sale of human body parts — including hands, feet and heads ...

She was separated from her husband when he died in 2021. He was cremated, and his ashes were mailed to her. She kept him in a box in a closet in the laundry room. In 2022, she bought an RV & moved to ...

He was cremated April 5, and his ashes stashed in a columbarium at the paupers cemetery, along with those of 15 other unidentified men. At least some are believed to be illegal immigrants who died ...

Spanley says he paid $800 to Crown Cremation Services in Crown Point, Indiana and Heights Crematory in Chicago Heights, Illinois to cremate his mother's remains. But, instead of properly preparing ...

An Indiana man's mother's remains spent months languishing in a south suburban crematory that has been shut down by Illinois officials amid reports of body mishandling.

Known as the Bromeswell bucket, the artifact found at England’s Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon site probably held the cremated remains of an important person, archaeologists say.

Experts used DNA evidence, soil analysis, and dental tests to identify the remains. In 2015, Richard’s story came full circle when his skeleton was reinterred, this time across the street in ...