Embalming fluid contains a mixture of toxic chemicals ... “But technology changes everything, including what we do here,” he ...

Jake’s grave is tucked at the back of the cemetery, past where many passersby may have thought the cemetery ended. Beyond the ...

Green burials, where the person is buried in a wicker basket without embalming, can reduce one's ecological footprint after death.

The husband and wife owners of a funeral home accused of piling 190 bodies inside a room-temperature building in Colorado ...

Mental health and end-of-life care infrastructure in Western Canada and the US is hindered by a cultural tendency to avoid discussions around death and human mortality. The sustained impact of ...

The podcast “Noble,” about severe malpractice at a Georgia crematorium, shows that even the most shocking of horror stories ...

Organisations in northern France are calling for a change in the law to allow for the practice of 'human composting', or ...

The decomposition ecosystem makes quick work of our corpses when we die, letting loose a rich diversity of microbes and ...

Whether you like it or not, death is the oldest human tradition that we’re all guaranteed to participate in. The rights and ...

Smaller items such as decorative jewelry and human hair wreaths will also be shown as keepsakes people would have to remember deceased loved ones. “Everything that you get to observe during the ...