A family-owned funeral home in Missouri purchased the 19th-century building and converted it into an operation for performing alkaline hydrolysis — a water-based alternative to traditional cremation.

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 ...

It is not a service pitched easily in a television commercial or on a highway billboard, but Steve Pomerantz wants to get the word out. Gentle Water Cremation, a Mangonia Park-based company Pomerantz ...

MILTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont offers a variety of burial methods and alternatives, now including a greener way to honor your loved ones. The vast majority of Vermonters opt for flame cremation - the ...

Since January, Hagler-Anderson Mortuary, one of Helena's oldest firms, has been operating a new crematory on Bozeman Avenue. Hagler-Anderson built the new facility to meet an increased demand in ...

The saying that humans are born from and return to dust may soon become outdated. Recently, the Scottish autonomous ...

Water cremation is a relatively new way of processing human remains that has a smaller carbon footprint than flame cremation and is less expensive than burial. Water cremation does use more water than ...