Excuse the bluntness, but once we shuffle off this mortal coil, our bodies are nothing but bags of live bacteria and dead cells. We can attempt to slow our decay (embalming), or we can preempt it with ...

There are an awful lot of tombstones in my neighborhood lately. They bear names like "Noah Scape" and "Izzy Dead." They pop up regularly this time of year, and disappear again in November. And with ...

An Ohio funeral director has been effectively banned from offering a procedure called alkaline hydrolysis, or liquid cremation, even though it’s believed to be better for the environment than ...

Walter White got it all wrong. If you want to chemically dissolve a body, as the Breaking Bad protagonist ordered his partner Jesse Pinkman to early in the series, you don't just dump it in a bathtub ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Some people choose burial; others choose cremation by fire. Now, a proposed bill could open a new frontier for Texans: liquid cremation. The scientific term is alkaline hydrolysis, ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. When the time comes, you’ve got options for how you want to go. In Minnesota, the typical options are: a traditional burial, donating your body to science ...

When a loved one dies, families typically are left with two options: burial or cremation. A California lawmaker wants to give families a third option, which is being pitched as a "green alternative" ...

Tucked away in eastern Alameda County is a sprawling 47-acre site that will soon be transformed into the cemetery of the future, expected to serve the Tri-Valley and surrounding region for the next ...

A new ‘liquid cremation’ service that a UK council had planned to use has been blocked from going ahead over fears the remains of dead people would make their way into the water system. Sandwell ...

WHEN someone pops their clogs, you can be pretty sure they’ll either be buried or cremated – but some prefer a send off that’s a little different. Whether its melting your body in hot water or firing ...

In this Feb. 14, 2011, photo provided by Edwards Funeral Home in Columbus, Ohio, Jeff Edwards stands next to an alkaline hydrolysis machine that uses lye and heat to dissolve a body as an alternative ...

Here are five of the strangest end-of-life solutions money can buy... WHEN someone pops their clogs, you can be pretty sure they’ll either be buried or cremated – but some prefer a send off that’s a ...