While the State of Maryland legalized water cremation in 2023, individual counties must opt in — and so far, only Baltimore ...

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

Mark C Ancker was laid to rest in a casket made from mushroom mycelium, a first for North America. It signals the growing popularity of green burials in the US.

Called Urna, the project was commissioned by Arts Council Malta in response to the country's landmark legalisation of cremation in 2019. Traditionally, funerary urns house the ashes of a single ...

The most recent crematorium built in B.C. was constructed in 2019 in Langford, where bodies are often shipped from the Lower ...

Inside the cremation area, two large stainless-steel chambers, called retorts and fired by natural gas, are humming and ...

“My son-in-law, who died recently, had wished to do a ‘green burial,’ but cancer and chemo made that inappropriate,” says Meg Stout, a Latter-day Saint in Annandale, Virginia. “Cremation ...

Hollywood Forever Cemetery's Gower mausoleum and new residents like David Lynch are positioning it for another 100 years of ...

More and more people are returning to the longtime tradition of a home funeral/wake to not only save money but have more ...