PORTLAND, Ore. _ For many years, funerals throughout the Pacific Northwest have taken on the same iconoclastic bent of the place itself. Here, cremations outnumber traditional burials; country clubs ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

Green burials have caught on as people look for eco-friendly ways to handle their remains. Water cremation is another way and ...

Necklaces filled with remains sit on the counter at Nelson Family Mortuary in Orem. Because green cremation produces powder-like bone remains, these could be used for green cremation remains as well. ...

Craig Cates doesn't believe in getting buried six feet deep by the competition. As president of MeadowLawn Memorial Park, a local cemetery and crematory, he says he's been mindful of the changes ...

When we think of ashes, there are many images that might come to mind—the powdery remnants at the bottom of a fireplace in deep winter, the soft bed of a crackling campfire in the mountains, volcanic ...

WORCESTER – Just after noon on this overcast Thursday, aging mortician Peter A. Stefan sat in his second-floor office, small wreaths of smoke curling lazily from his well-worn pipe, as a longtime ...

Tucked away on Naguru Road, just a few metres off the Lugogo Bypass, is the Lugogo Hindu Crematorium. On this particular afternoon in 2023, I arrive at around 2pm just in time to witness one of the ...

Americans have choices not only about how to live and what religion to embrace but they also have choices regarding their own deaths. Such choices as below -- and above -- ground burials and cremation ...