A new and greener kind of death care is coming to Maryland: water cremation. Those who’ve done it describe it as a gentler ...

Colorado County Coroner Brian Cotter allegedly concealed decomposing remains in a hidden room at his funeral home, and ...

The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the governments of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh after reports of ...

More states are clearing the way for a burial process that turns dead bodies into soil that can be used to nurture plants and ...

How long does it take to cremate a body? Get answers about cremation timing, how it works, and what families can expect during the process.

Some people like to bury their departed pets in their yard. What about burying a human loved one at your house? Or scattering ashes in a favorite spot? Here’s a look at what Florida law says about the ...

Police on Sunday arrested two individuals for allegedly stealing human remains during a cremation at Pashupati Aryaghat. The ...

The wife of an Aiken man whose remains were not supposed to be cremated by a funeral home in June has filed a complaint in Aiken County.

A medical museum in Philadelphia has redrawn its policies on the collection and display of human remains, limiting its ...

The culvert, too small to support big vehicles, forced the villagers to cross the flooded stream on foot, causing major inconvenience and delaying the cremation.

Law enforcement is investigating how the skull of a woman who died and was cremated in Maplewood in 2001 was found in 2002.

A Winnipeg tattoo artist is incorporating cremated ashes into tattoo ink so people who have lost a loved can have that person with them forever.