Gray's Funeral Chapel in Prince Albert, Sask., was the first business in Canada to start dissolving the dead using water cremation, although the funeral director admits he wasn't originally driven by ...

Jewish law is unequivocal: the dead must be buried in the earth, and cremation is not permitted.

The body is not a discarded shell; it is a sanctified partner, refined through every mitzvah performed in life. The body and ...