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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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