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) ...

Caskets crushed into the same grave, others buried outside cemetery grounds, hundreds of families unable to find loved ones - what happened at Galilee Memorial Gardens in suburban Memphis, Tennessee, ...

Nearly half of all people who died nationally last year were cremated and about 36 percent of Arkansans were cremated, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Industry insiders expect ...