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The premise of a green burial, say advocates of the practice, is to return us to the Earth, replenish it and help it to outlive us.

Embalming, cremation and casket-making are far from eco-friendly. Some researchers want to return human bodies to the earth naturally. Imagine a world where, when a person died, they took all their ...

Good question, Sonia. The first thing you should do is talk with your family about the subject. We (funeral directors) visit thousands of homes every year and many people tell us they’ve never taken ...

Cremation’s rise to 61.9% in 2024, driven by affordability and cultural shifts, has surpassed burials, reshaping the funeral economy with projections of 82% market share by 2045. Lower-cost cremation ...

When planning a funeral for a loved one, or for yourself, cremation may be presented as an alternative to burial. In terms of the expense involved, the average cremation cost can range from $1,500 to ...

These riches we hoard in our graves are the mineral building blocks necessary for those still alive — the carbon in our skin, the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones. These nutrients exist ...