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 ...

To John and Susan Garretson, the thought of cremating their son in the conventional way was almost as excruciating as the memory of his death. On March 20, 2021, a police officer in Peachtree City, Ga ...

Stephanie Bolling is a freelance writer based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Her work has appeared in The Balance, The Penny Hoarder and the Tampa Bay Times. When she's not writing, Stephanie enjoys ...

As cremation rates rise and consumer preferences shift, funeral homes are innovating in surprisingly unconventional ways so they don’t die out. Defying convention, Hamilton’s Funeral Home in Des ...

At 9 p.m. on New Year’s Day, Samantha Sieber was in her pajamas and watching a movie with her kids when the first call about Desmond Tutu came in. “I answered my cell phone, and it was BBC World News, ...

Funeral home owners with 167 years of experience in the business have purchased Davie Funeral Service in Lexington and rebranded as Affordable Funerals and Cremations of Davidson County. John Vogler ...