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

When someone died in the 19th century, the family would place a black wreath on the front door to signify a house in mourning ...

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 ...

At the dinner table, his father, an Italian immigrant with a seventh-grade education, talked about his day as a gravedigger.

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 ...

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

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

After nearly two decades in Chicago, Silverio Villegas González returned to Michoacán in a coffin. His death at the hands of federal agents left two families divided by borders, shattered with grief, ...