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 ...

Vicki Grantham of the Cremation Society of Illinois slid open a gray metal door. “This is where everything starts,” she said. Visitors peered into a huge room chilled to 35 degrees and fitted with ...

Those who are considering cremation as their final disposition are not alone. Cremations have been steadily increasing in the United States for decades. A recent report by the National Funeral ...

Losing someone you love changes everything. When the cremation is over and you're handed a small container filled with their ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A new bill filed in the Texas Legislature calls for funeral homes to be allowed to cremate human remains through the process of alkaline hydrolysis. According to the Cremation ...