Rising costs, shifting beliefs, and environmental concerns are accelerating the decline of casket burials.
Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery considers new alternative to burial and cremation.
Rabbi Moishe Kievman discusses the Jewish act of burial and why, as a rabbi, he feels that is the best option for Jewish ...
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 ...
Burial and cremation come with some pretty major environmental problems. Both involve huge amounts of energy, resources and ...
MESA, Ariz. - Headlines were made last week when it was revealed human rights activist Desmond Tutu wasn’t cremated, but he was aquamated. A new type of cremation that uses water and is supposedly ...
Data: National Funeral Directors Association; Map: Danielle Alberti/Axios Early data projects that more than half of Arkansans who died in 2025 were cremated, and cremation is now twice as popular as ...
Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...