Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...

The premise of a green burial, say advocates of the practice, is to return us to the Earth, replenish it and help it to outlive us.

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There’s a limit to how much development can happen on a game in a single year, and MLB The Show 22 is the perfect example of what hitting that wall can look like. This year’s entry into Sony San Diego ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

Upwards of 3 million people die every year in the United States. As a funeral director who heads a university mortuary science program, I can tell you that while each individual’s life experiences are ...

Perhaps a green burial is the least we can do to repay the planet for all it has given us and all the damage we’ve caused. Thinking about death is complicated; it can bring up fear and stress, even ...

Ahmedabad (Gujarat), June 18 ANI: In the aftermath of the tragic Ahmedabad plane crash, Gujarat authorities acted swiftly to manage rescue, identification, and the dignified handover of victims' ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The history of embalming in America is deeply rooted in both necessity and cultural ...

A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said the agency was happy to review “out-of-the-box pitches.” By Hamed Aleaziz Reporting from Washington The Department of Homeland Security is ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well. In a first report ...