Funeral.com has transitioned from an obituary listing site to a specialized memorial commerce platform featuring curated ...

A columbarium is like a mausoleum but for cremated remains. A columbarium "niche" (essentially an urn cubby) can range inprice from about $300 to $2,800. The costs associated with passing on can vary ...

A pall-covered vault containing ashes of the deceased awaits burial before an All Souls’ Day rite of committal in 2019 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, Md. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese ...

Following a period of great loss, how we talk about death has changed — so, too, has the way we think it should look. By Isabel Ling Unlike many cultures, Americans have very few rituals surrounding ...

John Plunkett said the wooden urns he makes are like little cabinets. “It’s just what you’d do to build a kitchen cupboard,” he said, showing a cross section of a model in his outdoor shop. “It’s ...

Bodies don't go into the pods. Rather, cremated human remains are placed in the biodegradable, plastic-derived urns, and then those urns get covered in soil. After that, a pre-existing tree gets ...