Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bill still must pass through the Senate, where it failed last year, to get signed. H5110, introduced by Rep. Michelle McGaw, D ...

With climate change gaining prominence, there’s a concerted effort around ensuring eco-friendly, well, everything – including end-of-life processes. While traditional fire cremation burns fossil fuels ...

Already a popular option in the U.S., and famously chosen by Archbishop Desmond Tutu who died in 2021, alkaline hydrolysis—a sustainable method of disposing the body after death—is set to be regulated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funeral home director Joseph H. Brown, left, stands Thursday with Baltimore City Councilman Mark Conway over an alkaline ...

The funeral industry could benefit from more environmentally friendly options. But some firms in the United Kingdom have balked at one cremation alternative. Sandwell Council was working with UK-based ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Most people thinking of end-of-life arrangements have faced a choice: traditional burial or flame cremation? But there is a third option, and it's being used locally in Palm ...

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 ...

The majority of people in the U.S. are now cremated after death. To most, that means disposing of a body with fire. But proponents are trying to bring a new form of "cremation" to Indiana — one that ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - More states across the country are legalizing a process called “water cremation,” but in Hawaii it’s not allowed and opposed by giants in the funeral industry.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii could soon be the 22nd state to allow water cremation. Many cemetery and mortuary business owners opposed the bill, but advocates believe it’s time for more ...