One of the urns had a name on it – Bonnie Throp – and the dates 1966-1983. Dupree brought the urns to store employees and explained what she had found. Local ...

Nearly 50 percent of Americans opted for cremation in 2015, and projections say it will be 70 percent by 2030.

Prices range from $600 (£389) for the smaller cremation urn to $2,600 (£679) for a larger one. Bizarrely, the company illustrates the service with an urn made in the shape of President Barack ...

At least 300 cremation urns containing human remains have been dumped in Lake Zurich near the controversial Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas. "After 50 we stopped counting," said Roman Ruetz, a ...

The Vatican announced Tuesday that Catholics may be cremated but should not have their ashes scattered at sea or kept in urns at home. According to new guidelines from the Vatican’s doctrinal ...

Human ashes will only be allowed to be scattered at sea or from aircraft under the finalised cremation law set to be brought before Parliament in the coming days. The law, details of which were ...

The mystery surrounding the fate of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, so often solved, has been solved again. In the expressive words of Le Matin, Paris Journal: "General Janin [onetime ...