Jeffrey Rich woke up last July to find his husband not breathing beside him in bed. When Jeff Wright, 57, could not be revived, Rich started looking for ways to honor his life, and to help the living ...

(The Conversation) — Green burial is not a new concept, but it is gaining interest among consumers, and some religious groups are leading the way. A theologian explains what’s involved and who natural ...

Steve Ball’s grave was marked not by a granite headstone or marble mausoleum upon the burial of his cremated remains last year, but a flat rock chipped into the shape of a heart. It came from his ...

Diane Holick has long known she doesn’t want to be buried in a box after she dies. Nor does she want to be cremated. Instead, she wants what’s known as a natural burial, a type of funeral that eschews ...

For two years, Joel Rimstad eyed a small historic cemetery a mile north of St. Peter to plot out his plan to offer green burials. This week, it became official. The Traverse-Green Lawn Cemetery, ...

As bagpipes played, Janet McAliley’s family pulled her casket of woven seagrass on a wooden wagon down a dirt path through a wild green meadow in Central Florida. In life, McAliley was a moral pillar ...

Before the funeral industry, most people died at home and remained there for a home ceremony to celebrate their life. This traditional practice of dealing with death is having a rebirth, as more ...

When Pam Howley’s 17-year-old daughter died of brain cancer in 2005, she knew one thing: “I did not want her embalmed.” After a year and a half of watching her daughter Daron endure surgeries, ...

When her mother died unexpectedly ten years ago in Tucson, Caitlin Lindquist found herself trying to piece together what her mother would have wanted to be done with her body. After settling on ...

Elderly Son, who passed in early January from a heart attack, was cremated; her ashes were scattered in a man-made lake. Despite her family’s wishes for her ashes to remain in a columbarium for family ...