It’s been more than 150 years since Vale Cemetery opened and on Tuesday workers there prepped to re-bury human remains that ...

Modern technology has developed new methods of treating human remains, many of which are incompatible with church teaching, such as “human composting” or alkaline hydrolysis, also known as water ...

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we check out a new green burial option available in Canada, see where companies' climate targets are going and find out how well compostable dishes and ...

Mark Twain and his family are buried in the Langdon family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY. The plot originally belonged to Twain’s father-in-law, Jervis Langdon, and contains 28 burials.

Three tombs from the Western Han dynasty have been discovered, one of which is intact and contains bronze, ceramic, and ...

Colma, California, just outside San Francisco, was founded as a necropolis in the 1920s. Today, the city is home to about ...

As more people worry about their environmental footprint in both life and death, one cemetery operator is offering a unique ...