The green option, also called “natural organic reduction,” transforms a body into nutrient-dense soil in just a few weeks.

Hundreds of families learned from officials that the ashes they ceremonially spread or kept close weren’t actually their ...

This green approach avoids the release of smoke from cremation and the leaking of fluids from burying embalmed bodies.

It was one of the largest discoveries of decaying bodies at a funeral home in the U.S.

Derrick Johnson buried his mother’s ashes in 2023 alongside his home on Maui, fulfilling her wish of a final resting place overlooking her grandchildren ...

Hundreds of families learned from that the ashes they ceremonially spread or kept close weren’t actually their loved ones’ remains. The bodies of their mothers, fathers, grandparents, children and ...

Hundreds of families learned from officials that the ashes they ceremonially spread or kept close weren’t actually their ...

Autopsies often do far more than confirm how someone died; they expose hidden injuries, buried secrets, and details no one expected to find. In some cases, what’s discovered in the morgue reshapes ...

Son discovers mother among 189 rotting corpses at Colorado funeral home - He held a memorial and sprinkled rose petals. Then the FBI called ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Wanyue Zhao and her colleagues used volatile organic ...