A burial urn, used to hold human ashes after cremation, has been found at a branch of a budget supermarket in Essex. The ...

A Michigan woman who received an urn full of her late husband's ashes at his memorial service in 1991 was shocked to find out ...

Deep in the ocean, whale carcasses feed an immense diversity of life. Up on land, young trees grow from the remains of dead ...

In March 2024, the cemetery sent a letter to the family stating that the cremated remains had either been “mixed up and ...

As more people worry about their environmental footprint in both life and death, one cemetery operator is offering a unique alternative to traditional burials – coffins and urns made of mushrooms.

For more than 30 years, 85-year-old Daisy Marshall believed her husband's ashes were safely contained in an urn at her home.

New Jersey has become the 14th state to allow the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burial or cremation.

How do you know whose ashes are in that urn? And what happens to gold fillings and metal plates when a person is cremated?

Sept 8 (Reuters) - England batter Jacob Bethell is unsure if his first hundred in international cricket in Sunday's one-dayer against South Africa has opened the door to the Ashes squad but the ...

The biodegradable container was handed in to a security guard after being found by a customer in Lidl supermarket, Abbot’s Road, Colchester, on Monday. Samuel David, a member of the security team at ...