Attending my father-in-law's memorial encouraged my husband and I to speak about our what we might want for our own funerals ...

"I hate the thought of my body being burnt, and to be reduced to nothing but a pile of ashes." In seconds, my romantic notions of a sunset ocean ash scattering ceremony disappeared. But I was ...

Prior to 2021, the Medical Examiner typically scattered unclaimed ashes in Puget Sound — there were scattering ceremonies on the water in 2014, 2016 and 2017. 2021 was the first year that the ...

The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office will inter the unclaimed cremated remains of more than 300 people at an upcoming ceremony, rather than scattering them at sea. Prior to 2021, the Medical ...

Pierce County Medical Examiner Thomas Clark releases a bag of unclaimed human remains from a Pierce County Sheriff’s boat into Puget Sound water on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. He now stands ...

George Harrison was cremated without ceremony in a simple cardboard ... of discovering Eastern mysticism in India by scattering his ashes on one of the country's sacred rivers.

Burris, 61 Janis Cavas, 77 Robert Clark, 66 John Coleman, 62 Craig Delanty, 72 Under blue skies and wispy clouds Saturday, in a ceremony marked ... with the county, the ashes of the dead have ...