Cremation is a popular alternative to burial that's becoming more common, but just how long does the whole process take from ...

Starting Tuesday, the process is legal in Minnesota for people looking for an alternate option to burial or cremation.

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

What is a water cremation and what happens to the human body during the process? As Co-Op plans to offer the service in Britain, MailOnline reveals a step-by-step guide to water cremations.

Water cremation and human composting could soon be offered as an alternative to traditional funerals. A Law Commission ...

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday paved the way for the dignified cremation of a man's body kept lying in a hospital morgue for the last 27 days, waiting for cremation amid a family dispute. The High ...

There is a palpable difference between an entombed human body, ashes left over from cremation and effluent remaining from alkaline hydrolysis. John Grondelski Blogs.

An alternative to burial or cremation — allowing dead bodies to break down into a soil-like product — is just a signature ...

NEW DELHI, Jan. 31, 1948 (UP) - The body of sainted Mohandas K. Gandhi today was committed to the flames of the burning ghat as violence touched off by his assassination flared anew in Bombay.

PROVIDENCE – A bill to allow the composting of human remains and a method of dealing with bodies known as water cremation passed the House for the second year in a row on May 29, but this time ...

AUSTIN, Texas (WKRC) - A mortuary owner was accused of "experimenting" on severed body parts from corpses she was in charge of cremating. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by local ...

Giant ceramic pots made centuries to millennia ago were found to hold human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and ...