According to the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), 56 percent of Americans who died in 2020 were cremated. That's more than twice the rate two decades ago. From The Washington Post: ...

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A leading Catholic moral theologian this week offered insight into the Vatican’s newest guidance on the handling of cremated remains, noting that Church teaching on “reverence for the body” must still ...

Reducing their footprint was the motivation for Gordon and Trudy Iseminger. Donating their bodies to science was the incentive for Walt and Darlene Mikkelson. They are the reasons the two Grand Forks ...

Instead of the traditional urn on the mantel or in a columbarium, Greiling wanted a more modern and heartfelt option to hold his remains. That’s when she learned about Artful Ashes, a Seattle business ...

Funeral directors in 15 states can now offer "water cremation," in which bodies are dissolved in a chemical solution. Some see it as more eco-friendly and less traumatic than consumption by flame. As ...

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 ...