Already a popular option in the U.S., and famously chosen by Archbishop Desmond Tutu who died in 2021, alkaline hydrolysis—a sustainable method of disposing the body after death—is set to be regulated ...

With NFC tag attached to body bags, Styx Logistics’ funeral home and dispatch customers have digitized data related to when a specific body was picked up or delivered for cremation. Deathcare software ...

When Stephanie Burris drives by graveyards near her home in Boulder County, Colorado, she sees thousands of tiny landfills: Concrete boxes filled with non-biodegradable caskets, which are lined with ...

For many of us who grew up in a time when traditional burials were the norm, the idea of cremation can feel unfamiliar — even unsettling. Yet more and more families today are choosing cremation, not ...

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 ...

But what happens when an autopsy is performed, in anticipation of litigation, and the body is subsequently cremated? Regardless of whether the autopsy is performed by a county coroner or an ...