Unconventional 'boil in a bag' funerals in which human bodies are liquified and disposed of in wastewater systems could be coming to the UK. A consultation of funerary methods by the Law Commission ...

Already a popular option in the US, 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 ...

Water cremation and human composting could soon be offered as an alternative to traditional funerals. A Law Commission consultation is proposing legal approval of new methods beyond burial, cremation, ...

MESA, Ariz. - Headlines were made last week when it was revealed human rights activist Desmond Tutu wasn’t cremated, but he was aquamated. A new type of cremation that uses water and is supposedly ...

Many social customs change over time, and the way we remember people who have died is no different. This is seen by the increasing popularity of 'direct' cremations, where the cremation takes place ...