A Lancaster County woman accused of endangering her teen daughter with an unsupervised, late-term abortion and then helping ...

There’s no state law that prohibits burying a loved one on your property, according to Florida’s Division of Funeral, Cemetery and Consumer Services. Florida statute lets families establish cemeteries ...

it wouldn’t matter where you’re throwing it away, whether it be trash, recycling, or home compost, it will decompose either way.

A new study from South Dakota State University reveals how grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that ...

Rather than burial or cremation, a Chestnut Hill man wants his body to be turned into soil via human composting, also known ...

A biodegradable urn made of blood and hair is among the experimental student projects from the University of Ljubljana.

MINDEN, La. – An agreement to pay $25,000 to a Houston, Texas, couple in connection with a Minden police officer’s handling of cremated remains in a traffic stop earlier this year was not ...

Some 125 cedar boxes, bearing the cremated remains of pets, sit stacked at Heartland Pet Aquamation in the West Bottoms, waiting to be retrieved by their owners.

Among the discarded ashes was their father, Michael Hughes. He died last January and was supposed to be in a red and gold urn. Instead, he was left in that plastic container.

A man found the discarded ashes of 17 people sitting outside a shut-down Kansas City funeral home.

A Walmart shopper ordered Dr. Pepper through USPS. Not only did she receive the wrong type, but it was also delivered it in a cremation box.