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

When the time comes, Angelo hopes to have a “green burial” — a simple, natural approach with no embalming, metal caskets or concrete ... most caskets buried today in the United States. Without them, ...

Funeral directors worry about a looming crisis as the region's limited cremation capacity means it's getting more difficult to deal with our dead.

automobile accident and embalming it without the permission of a family member. The funeral home had been contacted by the Des Moines County sheriff's office and asked to remove the body from the ...

For years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints frowned upon cremation, insisting that burial was theologically preferred for the dead. But more and more Latter-day Saints and other ...

which offered cremations and “green” burials without embalming fluids, kept doing business as its problems mounted. Authorities responding to an “abhorrent smell” entered the funeral home ...

"Green" burials, where un-embalmed bodies are buried by themselves, are already allowed in Rhode Island, as well as burials in caskets (with and without embalming) and cremation. The term the ...