cremation
Future Funerals: How Death Is Slowly Being Disrupted
How could innovative ideas improve funerals and final resting places? It’s a question not being asked enough.
Texas Abortion Clinics Have to Bury or Cremate Fetuses Now
The new rules will also require abortion providers to foot the cost, which is sometimes thousands of dollars per case.
We Asked an Undertaker Why He Keeps Strangers’ Unclaimed Ashes for Decades
Lawrence Shrader definitely has more dead people in his basement than you do.
The Vatican Says Catholics Shouldn't Spread Their Dead Relatives' Ashes Around Anymore
People are now supposed to keep them at a cemetery, and not on the mantel at home.
Jamie Oliver Says He Wants to Be Cremated In a Pizza Oven When He Dies
The TV chef has revealed in an interview with The Daily Mail that he wants a “culinary approach” to his funeral.
This Town Is Pouring Dissolved Human Bodies Into Its Sewer System
Dale Hilton is offering Canadians a more energy-efficient cremation method by using alkaline to liquify bodies and subsequently dumping the runoff into the city's sewage system.
This Is What It's Like to Burn Bodies for a Living
Cremation is becoming more and more popular in the US. We spoke to a young crematory operator about what it's like to make a living incinerating human carcasses.
Being Buried on the Moon Now Costs About the Same as an Average Funeral
When I die, bury me inside a lunar crater.
Scottish People Are Getting Too Fat to Be Cremated
According to the National Association of Funeral Directors, their coffins are getting to be too big for the furnace doors.
Flooded Corpses Are Leaking Formaldehyde into Northern Ireland's Groundwater
Zombies aren't the only way the dead can fuck with the living.
Atheism Terrifies People Because It Makes Us Think About Death
Studies have found that considering atheism leads many to thoughts of death—even when those people are atheists themselves.