A generation ago, burial was the default and cremation the exception. Today, the roles are rapidly reversing. By 2035, 80% of ...

A year after my mother died, my family spread some of her ashes off the Irish coast and decided to spread the remaining ashes later. That was in 2011. When my father died four years later, he also ...

In her nightstand, Leslie Grisanti has a spent shell casing packed with her father's ashes. It's a keepsake from the military gun salute that honored the former Marine at his memorial service. She ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

State investigators this week seized what appear to be cremated remains of at least 89 people from the abandoned Akron church of Shawnte Hardin, who was indicted last year on a slew of felony charges ...

The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...

The determined efforts of a Buffalo woman to find the cremated remains of her father led to the discovery Saturday of more than 30 boxes of cremains – including those of her father – abandoned in a ...

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) – A woman who won the contents of two abandoned storage units in Alabama ended up finding the cremated remains of more than a dozen people among the items inside. “That was ...

A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson ...