A Medford company has invented a new cremation-oven cleaning device that promises to prevent one person’s remains from accidentally mixing with another’s. The “Clean Sweep Air Broom” is the primary ...

FRESNO, California — They called the funeral home incinerator here the “pizza oven.” Days before a former Hells Angels Fresno chapter president is set to be sentenced for aiding the cremation of a man ...

CREMATION staff deep-cleaned the oven used for Peter Tobin over fears his ashes would mix with those of other dead people. One warning of “potential cross contamination” said: “No family will have ...

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A man in a stiff white collar sat down in his office in the provincial German city of Erfurt in the Spring of 1939, to draw up a plan for what he neatly named the first “mobile oil-heated cremation ...

In this January 2021 photo, a crematorium employee in Mexico closes a cremation oven during the cremation of a COVID-19 victim. (Photo: PEDRO PARDO/Getty Images) Conventional burial is the second most ...

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Ken died in Phnom Penh. Before the fire of the cremation oven was lit, I talked to a large crowd — about his travels, his growing up in Michigan, our lives in Oregon and Cambodia, and his love of Star ...