When planning a funeral for a loved one, or for yourself, cremation may be presented as an alternative to burial. In terms of the expense involved, the average cremation cost can range from $1,500 to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In some funeral parlors, physical casket showrooms could die out and move to a virtual realm — the space instead used for “water cremation” machines that break down a human body into bone fragments ...

When Stephanie Burris drives by graveyards near her home in Boulder County, Colorado, she sees thousands of tiny landfills: Concrete boxes filled with non-biodegradable caskets, which are lined with ...

Rhode Island's House passed a bill to allow human composting for the second year in a row and "water cremation" for the first time.

CHOOSING A CASKET AND TRADITIONAL GRAVESIDE BURIAL FOR THEIR FUNERALS. NO MORE CREMATION WHERE BODIES ARE BURNED DOWN TO ASHES, IS RISING IN POPULARITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND NOW THERE’S AN EFFORT ...