With NFC tag attached to body bags, Styx Logistics’ funeral home and dispatch customers have digitized data related to when a specific body was picked up or delivered for cremation. Deathcare software ...

Already a popular option in the U.S., and famously chosen by Archbishop Desmond Tutu who died in 2021, alkaline hydrolysis—a sustainable method of disposing the body after death—is set to be regulated ...

Cremation is no longer the exception; it’s quickly becoming the norm. According to the NFDA, the cremation rate could reach 82.1% by 2045. Families today are choosing cremation for its simplicity, ...

When life comes to an end, cremation or burial is the traditional choice. Thousands of people, though, opt instead to donate their bodies to a... Four of us sat around talking over the holidays.

There’s a growing interest in alternatives to traditional burials as well as making the process more environmentally friendly ...

In recent years, a troubling number of Jewish people have opted for cremation instead of traditional burial. The statistics are staggering — increasing each decade steadily and reaching unprecedented ...

In this Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, photo, Seth Viddal, who co-owns The Natural Funeral, stands behind a nearly completed human body composting vessel in Arvada, Colo. On Sept. 7, Colorado became the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At 1:05 a.m. on a crisp February morning in Boulder, 52-year-old Sheila Luna laid her head back on the hospital bed in her moonlit living room, closed her ...

From cardboard coffins and natural burials to water-based cremation, Australians are increasingly open to alternative farewells – but the key is to plan ...

In a suburban Denver warehouse tucked between an auto repair shop and a computer recycling business, Seth Viddal is dealing with life and death. He and one of his employees have built a “vessel” they ...