The process consumes significantly less energy than traditional flame cremation. The bill to make it an approved cremation ...

Alkaline hydrolysis is a form of flameless cremation where a human body can be liquified and turned into wastewater after death. An online video on alkaline hydrolysis is spurring claims that human ...

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SAN ANTONIO (WOAI) — The decision on what can be done with a person's remains will eventually have to be answered, and some folks in Texas are hoping for a new option. Advocates and some lawmakers are ...

Tucked away in eastern Alameda County is a sprawling 47-acre site that will soon be transformed into the cemetery of the future, expected to serve the Tri-Valley and surrounding region for the next ...

Manchester — Fire and earth have been the options in Connecticut for what funeral directors call "disposition" of loved ones' remains. Now, water is a choice. Connecticut Aquamation, housed in the ...

The majority of people in the U.S. are now cremated after death. To most, that means disposing of a body with fire. But proponents are trying to bring a new form of "cremation" to Indiana — one that ...

"It provides the same kind of result as it would with cremation, in terms of what the family gets back," Rabb said. In fact, Ballard said the process provides about 30% more ashes. It uses 95% water ...