As people look for environmentally friendly ways to live, some are asking if death can be sustainable, too. Coming up at 9 ...

Upwards of 3 million people die every year in the United States. As a funeral director who heads a university mortuary ...

Coffins tend to be made of wood, while caskets can contain a variety of materials, with wood and metal being the most common. Caskets typically cost more than coffins due to their more ornate design ...

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Brooklyn-based funeral director Amy Cunningham is leading a new type of old funeral these days: green burials. Green burials are gaining traction among people who like “all things ...

You can learn a lot about your options for the afterlife at the annual trade show, which recently ended at McCormick Place.

A proposed cemetery in Homer Township that would include natural, eco-friendly burials with no caskets has residents, many who use private water wells, concerned about the effects the development ...

For millennia humans have used different methods to preserve the deceased, from Egyptian mummification to modern embalming. While embalming is common in the United States, there is growing interest in ...

A ground crew at the cemetery interred the woman in the coffin that contractors dug up while excavating land Oct. 13 on ...

Trustees learned about regulations surrounding backyard burials in the township after receiving an opinion from the Ohio ...