Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, is awash in small-town trappings: tree-lined roads, rolling lawns, and street signs at every corner. On this Wednesday midsummer morning, the familiar routine ...

Water cremation will be available in the UK later this year, with Co-Op Funeralcare becoming the first company to offer the service. Also called resomation, the process uses chemicals to break down ...

MESA, Ariz. - Headlines were made last week when it was revealed human rights activist Desmond Tutu wasn’t cremated, but he was aquamated. A new type of cremation that uses water and is supposedly ...

Goes Funeral Care & Crematory in Fort Collins uses a Bio Response Solutions HT-500 for the water cremations it performs.

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 ...

More people are turning to cremation (59.7%) rather than burials (35.7%), according to the National Funeral Directors Association’s 2022 report. The average cost of a burial is $7,848 compared to ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday allowing funeral homes in the state to use a process called “alkaline hydrolysis” to liquefy human remains — a more earth friendly form of cremation ...

Aquamations are coming to Britain, as Co-op Funeralcare has confirmed that it will offer the service later this year. Also known as alkaline hydrolysis, resomations, or water cremations, the process ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --For 20,000 years, people have been using fire to cremate their loved ones. Now, for the first time, there's a new way to do cremations and, if Gov. Pat Quinn signs a measure approved ...

Hydrolysis is not new, as it is already legal and available in 28 states in the United States and other parts of the world.