The costs associated with passing on can vary wildly depending on how someone prefers their death to be handled by loved ones. At the low end, direct cremation (with ashes stored at home or scattered) ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged criticism of its plan to distribute memorial urns and plaques in a final rule published Friday -- namely, that accepting an urn might bar later burials ...

HYNER -- First it was a headstone and now a buried urn containing ashes have been taken from a family's plot in a Clinton County cemetery. Was it the work of a grave robber or a family member? That is ...