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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...
Most Americans Today Are Choosing Cremation – Here’s Why Burials Are Becoming Less Common
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWritten by David Sloane, University of Southern California ____ The National Funeral Directors...
All that remains: From liquid cremation to mushroom suits, why more people are opting out of burial
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agocemetery gravestones flowers Getty Images/La_Corivo There are an awful lot of tombstones in my...
How to become human compost (and other ways to be environmentally-friendly, post-mortem)
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChanging values and advances in technology have led to a burgeoning “green” death industry from...
Death Is Inevitable. A New Kind of Cremation Is Trying to Make It Sustainable.
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 3 months agoNew Kind of Cremation Could Make Death SustainableMaarten Wouters - Getty Images An alternative...
Is it legal to mix my ashes with those of a beloved pet? What KY law says on cremation
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIs it legal to mix pet ashes with human ashes in Kentucky? More Kentuckians are choosing cremation...
Florida's oldest poll worker, Vera Craig of Fort Myers, dies at 101
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFlorida’s oldest poll worker has died. Vera Craig of Fort Myers ― who was 101 years old ― died April...
Going out ‘green.’ Demand grows for Florida funerals that preserve nature, cut pollution
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs bagpipes played, Janet McAliley’s family pulled her casket of woven seagrass on a wooden wagon...
Can you scatter the ashes of a loved one on public land in Idaho? Here’s what the law says
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWhen we lose a loved one, we want to do our best to commemorate them in a way that upholds their...
With no next of kin, the dead tax county resources. How they end up in coroner offices.
Bucks County Courier Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAbout five years ago, a man walked into the Montgomery County Coroner’s office with his dead...