The peculiar container – a casket made entirely of mushrooms – held the body of Mark Ancker, who died of a heart attack last ...

A Necropolis is a mere depository for dead bodies,” Douglass wrote. “Green-Wood,” on the other hand, implied “verdure, shade, ...

According to Funeralocity, a funeral cost comparison tool, the average traditional full service burial in North Carolina is over $8,000. Caskets and urns are often made of ... the casket into a ...

At Holy Hope, a burial for an urn costs $2,325, including grave space, endowment care and installation of an urn vault. For the urn to be placed in a niche in the mausoleum, the cost is $4,800.

Known as the Bromeswell bucket, the artifact found at England’s Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon site likely held the cremated remains ...

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

The urn containing his powdered bones ... But at the moment, he likes the idea of a natural burial best - no casket, no steel or concrete-lined vault, just a blanket around him to keep him warm.

“One of the advantages of pre-arranging and pre-paying is we can guarantee the cost of the merchandise (casket, burial vault, cremation urn, and services),” Lucas said. “Pre-arranging is ...

But the bill also said that, if a plaque or urn is provided, then the VA "may not provide" the veterans with "any burial benefit" to be interred at a VA national cemetery. At the same time ...

Their ashes were stored in urns ... vault keys. Credit: Jerzy Strzelecki, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Mausoleum of Diocletian in the Croatian city of Split is part of his palace complex there ...

Back to Earth Caskets and Urns, a green burial option, held its grand opening in January ... "Most of the cemeteries will require you to be put in a vault. The embalming is an option. You do not have ...