BALTIMORE — 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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A new bill filed in the Texas Legislature calls for funeral homes to be allowed to cremate human remains through the process of alkaline hydrolysis. According to the Cremation ...

Humans have been cremating their lost loved ones since the Stone Age, but we've come a long way from the fire pits they used. Modern cremation is a surprisingly technologically advanced business, ...

Gentle Water Cremation funeral director Holly Sutton explains how the cremation process works Gentle Water Cremation, a Mangonia Park-based company offers a new way of processing human remains that is ...

A woman has intrigued the internet after sharing a behind-the-scenes look at her fascinating job in a crematorium on TikTok. Latifah Franks is a 31-year-old funeral coordinator and crematory operator ...

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 ...

OLD HICKORY, Tenn. (WKRN) — More than 8,300 Tennesseans have died from COVID-19. Gale Robinson owns Phillips-Robinson Funeral Home which has served the community for more than 90 years. “It is real.

TEXAS, USA — The pandemic is causing many to consider end-of-life plans. More than half of all Americans choose cremation over caskets and traditional burials. Costs and concern for the environment ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — The first flameless cremation facility for humans in the state of California is now open in San Diego County. White Rose Aqua Cremation in Escondido offers a completely water based ...

Nature's Pawprint is Rhode Island's first "aquamation" facility — cremating pets with a water-based process instead of a fire ...