An alternative to burial or cremation — allowing dead bodies to break down into a soil-like product — is just a signature ...

When someone you love passes, the silence they leave behind is louder than anything. You look around at their favorite chair, ...

While fishing in the Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon, a local resident spotted a fallen tree — and made an ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

Families trying to memorialize to their lost loved ones in space were shocked to learn that those remains ended up at sea.

Herbie, a service dog who was trained for over two years with Gilbert, the Hortman’s dog, sits as a member of a dog honor ...

Celestis says it's the 1st company to offer space burials. Some remains, from "Star Trek" actors to JFK, have flown to orbit ...

Two urns containing human ashes, the symbolic remnants of the 86,000 Jews of Vilna and thousands of other Jews from Latvia who were slain by the Nazis during World War II, were laid to rest ...

An Ancient Burial Ritual in the Heart of the Amazon. The urns, which were found buried approximately 40 centimeters (about 16 inches) deep, contained not only human skeletal remains but also the ...

When her father passed, he left half his ashes to his daughter and half to his widow. But now the daughter is being harassed to divide her share—and she’s turning to Reddit for support ...

Arjun Patoliya, 37, was among those killed when Air India Flight AI171 crashed after taking off from Ahmedabad on June 12 ...