It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s crematory in West Baltimore uses hot water, chemicals and a bit of agitation to dissolve ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --For 20,000 years, people have been using fire to cremate their loved ones. Now, for the first time, there's a new way to do cremations and, if Gov. Pat Quinn signs a measure approved ...

A new form of cremation that proponents claim is more environmentally friendly may soon be legal in New Hampshire. It goes by many names including Resomation, Aquamation, bio cremation, and non-flame ...

With the growing cost of funerals and increasing number of people choosing not to have a traditional funeral, cremations have become a popular way to remember your loved ones. To stay within budget ...

- Body is placed in a combustible, leak-proof, covered container if a casket is not being used. - The furnace cremates only one body at a time. - Chamber reaches temperatures between 1,400 and 1,800 ...

Francisco Rivero proudly shows off a large stainless steel pod in the middle of a cavernous concrete room. He unlatches its heavy vault door, swinging it open slowly to reveal an inner chamber just ...

SCOTLAND is making waves in the funeral industry – after it became the first country in the UK to make water cremations legal ...

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