Authorities entered the funeral home's neglected building with ... The company, which offered cremations and "green" burials without embalming fluids, kept doing business as its financial and ...

Similarly, in Judaism, bodies are washed without embalming, wrapped in a plain shroud, and buried in a wooden casket without any metal or nails. In the U.S., handling the dead used to be much more ...

preferably without embalming. The Talmud, Cardin said, talks about the inequity and disparity between wealthy and poor, with lavish burial rites being seen as inequitable. “Several people ...

"We were told by cemetery personnel to expect just bones in the conditions, as Sister Wilhelmina was buried without embalming and in a simple wood coffin," one of the sisters, who asked to be ...

Sister Wilhelmina, a Black nun who passed away May 29, 2019, was buried without embalming in a simple wooden casket on the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles monastery property in Gower ...

So, Woodlawn permitted my husband to be buried in a standard casket without embalming, but the walls of the grave are concrete. I’ve since inquired about a more environmentally friendly casket ...

The green burial process involves prepping the body without chemicals such as embalming fluids that prevent decomposition. The body would be covered with a shroud or placed in a biodegradable casket.

ST. STEPHEN — A flat stone marker lays at the base of a pear sapling, where green leaves spring out of the young branches. The memorial tree is the first rooted in Sacred Grove Preserve, a ...

Rhode Island's House passed a bill to allow human composting for the second year in a row and "water cremation" for the first ...

As embalming gained popularity and legitimacy ... while in most other countries, bodies are buried without being preserved artificially. Religion often plays an important role in these practices ...

An unscientific take on an issue in the news.