Sure there are caskets and cremation, but did you know about composting and green burials? Here's a primer, because it never hurts to plan ahead ...

Summary The Antiquities Act, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, allows the president to designate ...

Douglas County commissioners approved a site plan to help open up burials once again at a cemetery that hasn’t hosted a burial in over 100 years. On Wednesday, county commissioners greenlit a site ...

One of the things he told me, it was a Sunday before he died, he walked up to me and said look, I want you to make sure that ...

Funerals are often viewed as deeply emotional events, and rightfully so—they represent a moment of profound loss. However, in recent years, many people ...

A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel reveals early human rituals, symbolic traditions, and unexpected cultural ties ...

On 20 acres in the far northwest corner of Panorama Farms in Earlysville, the dead are laid to rest without metal caskets or concrete vaults or embalming chemicals.

Plans for a huge new cemetery on land in a residential area of Brierfield have been submitted by Pendle Council to meet demand for burial space ...

A Michigan township is using a new ordinance to block a natural burial business six months after losing to the cemetery’s ...

A wildflower meadow on a 70-acre estate in the west of Wiltshire is to become a natural burial site with up to 2,000 graves across one hectare. The owners of Thoulstone Park, which is located ...

The last aspect that makes for a natural burial is where the bodies are buried. Many cemeteries bury their caskets in vaults or liners, often made of concrete, which are meant to be protective ...

The green burial (natural burial) section of a cemetery is pictured. In traditional burials, caskets are often buried within a concrete vault. But for green burials, there is no such lining and ...