With climate change gaining prominence, there’s a concerted effort around ensuring eco-friendly, well, everything – including end-of-life processes. While traditional fire cremation burns fossil fuels ...

PROVIDENCE – A bill to allow the composting of human remains and a method of dealing with bodies known as water cremation passed the House for the second year in a row on May 29, but this time with a ...

Joseph H Brown III, owner Joseph H Brown Jr. Funeral Home, offers alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation at their OnSite Cremation LLC facility. He says this is a greener, though more costly, option ...

Dec. 7—ROCHESTER — Dean Fisher has dedicated his retirement time toward legalizing and providing water cremation, or alkaline hydrolysis, around the world. Fisher has been surrounded by death for ...

Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...

It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s crematory in West Baltimore uses hot water, chemicals and a bit of agitation to dissolve ...

BENNINGTON — Leaf & Water, a Green Cremation Solutions LLC facility, has opened for business providing “flameless,” or water-based, cremation services at a facility on County Street. “Leaf & Water ...

Tom Tierney was born into the funeral home business. He took over the John F. Tierney Funeral Home in Manchester in 2020 and was looking for ways to provide more for patrons. Last year, he started The ...

Montgomery County, Maryland is considering becoming the first jurisdiction in the D.C. region (But second in the state) to allow a more eco-friendly alternative to traditional cremation: water ...

CHICOPEE — Paws Finding Peace, a pet clinic in Chicopee, offers an alternative to typical cremation methods when pets die. The clinic has been offering water-based cremation, also known as alkaline ...