MESA, Ariz. - Headlines were made last week when it was revealed human rights activist Desmond Tutu wasn’t cremated, but he was aquamated. A new type of cremation that uses water and is supposedly ...

Green burials have caught on as people look for eco-friendly ways to handle their remains. Water cremation is another way and ...

An alternative human burial method, known as alkaline hydrolysis or ‘water cremation,’ has started to gain traction in recent years. Alkaline hydrolysis is marketed as a greener, cleaner form of ...

Alkaline hydrolysis is a form of flameless cremation where a human body can be liquified and turned into wastewater after death. An online video on alkaline hydrolysis is spurring claims that human ...

SAN ANTONIO (WOAI) — The decision on what can be done with a person's remains will eventually have to be answered, and some folks in Texas are hoping for a new option. Advocates and some lawmakers are ...

House lawmakers approved a new form of cremation Thursday. (Getty Images) Indiana’s House of Representatives on Thursday approved a water-based cremation alternative despite religious pushback. Rep.

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, ...

With climate change gaining prominence, there’s a concerted effort around ensuring eco-friendly, well, everything – including end-of-life processes. While traditional fire cremation burns fossil fuels ...

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 ...

Joseph H Brown III, owner Joseph H Brown Jr. Funeral Home, offers alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation at their OnSite Cremation LLC facility. He says this is a greener, though more costly, option ...

"Everything seems like yesterday," she said while flipping through a family photo album. After a health scare in fall 2022, Murphy started thinking about how her story will end. She bought a book ...