When it comes to what happens after death, the choices surrounding burial and preservation reveal as much about cultural traditions and personal values as they do about science. The age-old practice ...

Black doesn’t crack, even in the afterlife, and the late, great Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster is a shining example of this truth. Sister Wilhelmina, a Black nun who passed away May 29, 2019, was buried ...

PENROSE, Colo. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the improper storage of human remains at a southern Colorado funeral home that performs “green” burials without embalming chemicals or metal caskets ...

In some funeral parlors, physical casket showrooms could die out and move to a virtual realm — the space instead used for “water cremation” machines that break down a human body into bone fragments ...