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‘Unusual urn’ — still filled with 3,000-year-old human remains — found in burial mound
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAt least 3,000 years ago, an “unusual” urn was filled with human ashes and buried within a round...
Dozens of Neolithic burials and 'sacrificed' urns and ax discovered in France
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA skeleton buried at a Neolithic site . Archaeologists in France have excavated a Neolithic site...
Fact Check: Biodegradable Burial Pods Turn Human Bodies Into Trees?
Snopes via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCapsula Mundi Claim: Biodegradable burial pods that contain cremated human remains turn bodies into...
Cremated remains still hold clues to life and death in the Bronze Age
Popular Science· 8 months agoA Late Bronze Age urn from Austria in roughly 1400-1300 BCE, containing cremated human remains....
Everything you need to know about burial insurance
Yahoo Personal Finance· 5 months agoPlanning for final expenses like burial costs can provide relief and support to family members at a difficult time. But if you’re on a shoestring budget,...
Ancient urn — still holding 2,500-year-old remains — unearthed during road construction
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAt least 2,500 years ago, someone died and was cremated. Their ashes, feet bones and parts of their...
More Kentuckians are choosing cremation over burial, but not in rural areas. Here’s why
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 7 months agoKenneth Earl Wilson, who had worked at a bank and in the houseboat industry in Somerset, grew up in...
All that remains: From liquid cremation to mushroom suits, why more people are opting out of burial
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agocemetery gravestones flowers Getty Images/La_Corivo There are an awful lot of tombstones in my...
This Dutch startup company makes mushroom coffins that biodegrade in 45 days
USA TODAY via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoA Dutch startup company is now selling coffins that biodegrade within 45 days of burial. The...
Couple accused of stealing urn, dumping child’s ashes have been indicted by grand jury
WSB Cox articles via Yahoo News· 3 months agoTwo former hospital employees accused of stealing an urn while they were at work have now been...