MESA, Ariz. - Headlines were made last week when it was revealed human rights activist Desmond Tutu wasn’t cremated, but he was aquamated. A new type of cremation that uses water and is supposedly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The funeral industry could benefit from more environmentally friendly options. But some firms in the United Kingdom have balked at one cremation alternative. Sandwell Council was working with UK-based ...

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 to dissolve ...

It is not a service pitched easily in a television commercial or on a highway billboard, but Steve Pomerantz wants to get the word out. Gentle Water Cremation, a Mangonia Park-based company Pomerantz ...

A sustainable option for what to do with our remains is trickling into popular consciousness Lauren Oster At 9 p.m. on New Year’s Day, Samantha Sieber was in her pajamas and watching a movie with her ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — One universal experience every person on this planet will experience is death. So what do you want to happen to your body after you die? If your response is cremation, you are not ...

Joseph H Brown III, owner Joseph H Brown Jr. Funeral Home, offers alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation at their OnSite Cremation LLC facility. He says this is a greener, though more costly, option ...

Aquamations are coming to Britain, as Co-op Funeralcare has confirmed that it will offer the service later this year. Also known as alkaline hydrolysis, resomations, or water cremations, the process ...

Going green extends to pets, even after life. While many pet owners bury their animals in backyards or pet cemeteries, a significant number opt for cremation and ashes returned in funerary urns.