Green funerals are poised to grow quickly in the coming decades. A number of death care firms are ready for the secular trend. The shift to eco-friendly funerals won’t happen overnight. With a small ...

With an ever-growing list of ways to deal with human remains, it can be hard to know which method is best for the Earth. Most of us try to be responsible global citizens while we’re alive. We sort ...

Jeff Edwards, owner of Edwards Funeral Service in Columbus, Ohio, wants to make one thing clear: He isn't flushing your grandmother down the toilet. That, he says, is the biggest misconception about ...

Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin ...

Mary Bert enjoyed hiking and spending time in the outdoors. Vacations with her husband Bill often included hitting a trail and wildlife watching, from toucans and howler monkeys in Guatemala to ...

We’re talking about death, a difficult topic for most people. But the way a lot of Americans view death and end-of-life care is shifting, maybe for the better. One of the leading voices in the death ...

It's the absolute personal touch." The Green Burial Council defines and certifies different levels of greenness, the most green being conservation burial grounds, then natural, and finally, hybrid ...

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ARKANSAS, USA — Among the unenviable tasks a funeral director has to perform is guiding the grief-stricken through one of the saddest times of their lives and then handing them a bill indicative of ...

If you walk through a particular spot of the forest in Northern California, you may notice something different about the trees — they are all marked with a number. “Better Place Forests is a ...