PROVIDENCE – A bill to allow the composting of human remains and a method of dealing with bodies known as water cremation passed the House for the second year in a row on May 29, but this time with a ...

BALTIMORE — It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s crematory in West Baltimore uses hot water, chemicals and a bit of agitation ...

The majority of people in the U.S. are now cremated after death. To most, that means disposing of a body with fire. But proponents are trying to bring a new form of "cremation" to Indiana — one that ...

Gentle Water Cremation funeral director Holly Sutton explains how the cremation process works Gentle Water Cremation, a Mangonia Park-based company offers a new way of processing human remains that is ...

Green burials have caught on as people look for eco-friendly ways to handle their remains. Water cremation is another way and ...

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 ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Most people thinking of end-of-life arrangements have faced a choice: traditional burial or flame cremation? But there is a third option, and it's being used locally in Palm ...

Water cremation is a relatively new way of processing human remains that has a smaller carbon footprint than flame cremation and is less expensive than burial. Water cremation does use more water than ...

Durham University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Already a popular option in the US, and famously chosen by Archbishop Desmond Tutu who died in 2021, alkaline ...