MESA, Ariz. - Headlines were made last week when it was revealed human rights activist Desmond Tutu wasn’t cremated, but he was aquamated. A new type of cremation that uses water and is supposedly ...

Founder of Pure Reflections, Elizabeth Oakes joined Shane and Ciara on The Hard Shoulder to discuss water cremation.

Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, is awash in small-town trappings: tree-lined roads, rolling lawns, and street signs at every corner. On this Wednesday midsummer morning, the familiar routine ...

- Body is placed in a combustible, leak-proof, covered container if a casket is not being used. - The furnace cremates only one body at a time. - Chamber reaches temperatures between 1,400 and 1,800 ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday allowing funeral homes in the state to use a process called “alkaline hydrolysis” to liquefy human remains — a more earth friendly form of cremation ...

Humans have been cremating their lost loved ones since the Stone Age, but we've come a long way from the fire pits they used. Modern cremation is a surprisingly technologically advanced business, ...

The UK is taking steps toward legalizing "water cremation" as a new funeral method, providing a third option alongside traditional burial and flame cremation. The UK Law Commission is currently ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --For 20,000 years, people have been using fire to cremate their loved ones. Now, for the first time, there's a new way to do cremations and, if Gov. Pat Quinn signs a measure approved ...

From the standpoint of Judaism, it is a painful break from the sanctity of the human body and from the eternal significance ...