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Water cremation: sustainable body disposal is coming to Scotland – here are the benefits
The Conversation· 24 hours agoAlkaline hydrolysis reduces the body to its basic components. Also known as resomation, water cremation or aquamation, alkaline hydrolysis has some economic and practical ...
'Water cremation' is eco-friendly option now offered in Conn.
The Day· 4 days agoFire and earth have been the options in Connecticut for what funeral directors call "disposition" of loved ones' remains. Connecticut Aquamation, housed in the John F. Tierney Funeral Home in ...
A man hauled his uncle’s body across the country to an Ozarks cemetery. Here's why
Springfield News-Leader via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThat wouldn't be the case. "We didn't think there'd be much of him left and that we'd have to sift...
Morbid Confession: I Prepaid My Own Funeral — Here’s How Much I Paid
GoBankingRates via AOL· 3 days agoTalking about death is never a comfortable subject. But for Allen M., a retiree living in Los...
On Your Side Podcast: In honor of moms and a ‘momprenuer’
KTVK 3TV Phoenix· 3 days agoLet’s celebrate those hard-working moms!
Going out green: Natural burials offer a time-tested alternative to the modern funeral
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 5 days agoSteve Ball’s grave was marked not by a granite headstone or marble mausoleum upon the burial of his...
East County planning group wants to tap brakes on Muslim cemetery in remote Pine Valley
NBC San Diego· 7 hours agoA local planning group is concerned that the decomposing bodies could contaminate the backcountry's groundwater, which is drawn from a sole-source aquifer below the proposed site. This time, ...
Abortion ballot measure faces potential roadblocks
Politico· 7 days agoIn 2022, just as in 2012, six out of...affordability and availability its main focus.” MAJOR EXPENSES — “The cost of dying is going up, leaving some Florida families scrambling ...
For immigrant workers who die in US, a body’s journey home is one last struggle
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 7 days agoBALTIMORE — Nearly two decades after Maynor Suazo Sandoval left Honduras seeking American prosperity, he will finally make the long-awaited trip home. Suazo Sandoval was a month from his 39th ...
Cemeteries get a new lease on life as dog parks, antique markets and picnic grounds
Market Watch· 6 days agoAt a time when people’s preferences for death care have swung from formal burials to alternative...
