Plans have been lodged with Gateshead Council to construct a new approximately 20,000 plot burial ground between Crawcrook ...

The National Funeral Directors Association predicts cremations in Iowa will be 77 percent of the dispositions of bodies by ...

Hundreds of King County residents who died last year without family members to claim their remains were honored Wednesday in ...

The Carlton County board is expected to vote on a one-year moratorium for any new or modified green burial cemeteries at its ...

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

Qualified poor families will be given "indigent funeral package" which includes preparation of funeral documents, embalming, interment or burial services, transport, cremation, and inurnment services, ...

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century.

Before the Civil War, embalming was not commonly practiced in the United States. Most Americans handled death and burial at home, relying on refrigeration, ice, or swift burial to delay decomposition.

PROVIDENCE – Civil War veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. was buried without a gravestone at North Burial Ground in Providence but is finally being recognized and honored more than 130 years later.