PORTSMOUTH — Despite the grisly discovery of a decomposing body and allegedly unidentified ashes at Bayview Crematory in Seabrook late last month, few people have changed their attitudes toward ...

PORTLAND, Ore. _ For many years, funerals throughout the Pacific Northwest have taken on the same iconoclastic bent of the place itself. Here, cremations outnumber traditional burials; country clubs ...

Americans have choices not only about how to live and what religion to embrace but they also have choices regarding their own deaths. Such choices as below -- and above -- ground burials and cremation ...

Necklaces filled with remains sit on the counter at Nelson Family Mortuary in Orem. Because green cremation produces powder-like bone remains, these could be used for green cremation remains as well. ...

WORCESTER – Just after noon on this overcast Thursday, aging mortician Peter A. Stefan sat in his second-floor office, small wreaths of smoke curling lazily from his well-worn pipe, as a longtime ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The composting of human remains has turned into a growing business in Washington state. The state in 2019 became the first state to allow an alternate method to traditional burial or ...