Mortality comes calling for all of us eventually. When your time comes, will your burial arrangements help the planet?

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A new bill filed in the Texas Legislature calls for funeral homes to be allowed to cremate human remains through the process of alkaline hydrolysis. According to the Cremation ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — More and more people are exploring options for end-of-life arrangements and eco-friendly choices are becoming popular. Thomas Trowbridge wanted a gentler alternative to ...

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 ...

The majority of people in the U.S. are now cremated after death. To most, that means disposing of a body with fire. But proponents are trying to bring a new form of "cremation" to Indiana — one that ...