These businesses told CNBC they still import granite despite the levies, due to higher labor costs in the U.S. On top of that ...

The small, family run companies that make traditional memorialization products like gravestones are facing the dual ...

Funerals are meant for the living as a chance to celebrate the life of their loved ones who have passed. It is a chance to remember, respect, and reminisce their lives. It is also a reminder that we ...

Traditional burial methods harm the planet in various ways. Embalming slows the decay of a person’s body so that it’s presentable at a funeral—but after burial, the chemicals used for embalming leach ...

India is renowned for having distinctive religious practices that coexist with one another. The numerous shrines and monuments allow one to contemplate the importance of faith for many. One of the ...

Assam Education Minister Ranoj Pegu shared details of the possible cremation site for the late singer Zubeen Garg, who passed away after a scuba diving accident in Singapore on September 19. While ...

The cremation of Konkani activist Eric Alexander Ozario has brought attention to the Catholic Church's allowance of cremation since 1963, a practice not widely adopted. While burial remains preferred, ...

A Billings funeral home has been fined and one of its employees reprimanded after the business accidentally cremated a body. Smith Funeral Chapels, 925 S. 27th Street, has been fined $3,000 by the ...

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Licensed funeral director and certified celebrant Amy Hart removes a compartment at the center of a rose keepsake urn at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 3855 Katz Dr., in Marion on May 30. ...

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Anthropomorphism is an “utterly charming linchpin of the human mind,” contends animal cognition researcher Gregg (If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal) in this captivating survey. His Continue reading » Their ...