TEXAS, USA — The pandemic is causing many to consider end-of-life plans. More than half of all Americans choose cremation over caskets and traditional burials. Costs and concern for the environment ...

A new form of cremation that proponents claim is more environmentally friendly may soon be legal in New Hampshire. It goes by many names including Resomation, Aquamation, bio cremation, and non-flame ...

A relatively new method of disposition is growing in popularity in Southern New England, despite not yet being legal in either Rhode Island or Massachusetts.

MESA, Ariz. - Headlines were made last week when it was revealed human rights activist Desmond Tutu wasn’t cremated, but he was aquamated. A new type of cremation that uses water and is supposedly ...

Traditional means of cremation, and the only legal method in Texas, is with the use of a furnace, which burns the human remains into ashes and mineral fragments, which most times are transferred to an ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --For 20,000 years, people have been using fire to cremate their loved ones. Now, for the first time, there's a new way to do cremations and, if Gov. Pat Quinn signs a measure approved ...

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 ...