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I want to arrange for a perpetual memorial service because there is no one to inherit the grave.I heard that joint burial can ...

Dutch designer Maria Tyakina has reimagined the traditional cremation urn as a futuristic domed vessel, in a bid to better suit the modern-day home. The Dome urn is composed of three parts. The hollow ...

In recent years, Catholics have increasingly chosen to scatter the ashes of loved ones – or keep them close by, at home – as a way to honor their lives. The Vatican, though, doesn’t condone the ...

A year after my mother died, my family spread some of her ashes off the Irish coast and decided to spread the remaining ashes later. That was in 2011. When my father died four years later, he also ...

'Every person has their own unique personality, so why, when we pass away, should we all be kept in the same standard container?' asks Jonathan Hancock, co-founder of Urn Studios, a new UK-based ...