Giant multi-person urns and the world's first known org chart from 1855, are among the key installations from this year's London Design Biennale, which opens at Somerset House today.

Rhode Island's House passed a bill to allow human composting for the second year in a row and "water cremation" for the first time.

Known as "organic human reduction" under Georgia law, human composting is basically turning a body into soil instead of ashes as with typical cremation. According to Brittanica, it typically ...

The scattering of human ashes from cremation is prohibited within Mount Rushmore National Memorial and no permits will be issues for this activity.

Tuesday, 17-year-old Cartiyae Pascal was arraigned on open murder and felony weapons charges and police said he is being tried as an adult.

On election night, the prime minister talked about ‘fairness’ and ‘Australian values’. To legally protect those values, we need a national human rights act.

Most Adult Disability Payment awards are issued by Social Security Scotland for between two and 10 years.

Just at that time, she met the ceramicist Craig Spencer - and the idea for Vaso crystalised. They've collaborated on a range of hand crafted cremation urns for loved ones - both human and pet. Each is ...

They've collaborated on a range of hand crafted cremation urns for loved ones - both human and pet. Each is unique and she hopes to work with different local artists on limited edition runs.

A husband-wife archeology firm in Santa Rosa has developed a process to find cremains, the kind kept in an urn, among ashes of burned houses.

The team from Southern Oregon University’s Laboratory of Anthropology in Ashland will search for human ashes among layers of toxic ash.

With cremation on the rise, figuring out where and how to store, display or otherwise handle the ashes can be confusing, finds Bill Ervolino.