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

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.

P ROVIDENCE – 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 ...

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 human burial method, known as alkaline hydrolysis or ‘water cremation,’ has started to gain traction in recent years. Alkaline hydrolysis is marketed as a greener, cleaner form ...

During alkaline hydrolysis, a human body is sealed in a long, stainless-steel chamber, while a heated solution of 95 percent water and 5 percent sodium hydroxide passes over and around it.

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.

Practitioners say this water-based process of cremation results in over 90 percent energy savings compared to flame-based cremation. But I wondered what would then happen to my remains.

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 ...

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 ...