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Alternative end-of-life practices like water cremation and human composting produce fewer emissions and return nutrients to ...

Whitman County Coroner Annie Pillers has been working to identify the individual as well as determine the cause and manner of ...

Garcia was last seen outside the Rosauer's in town before he disappeared July 6, 2016. His disappearance was deemed ...

There's no coming back from death, but that doesn't mean that all of you goes at the same time, some parts linger on for days ...

Pathologists say heat, exposure and trauma play key roles in the rate of decomposition. Police are investigating the ...

Fungi are essential to life on land. They decompose organic matter, cycle nutrients and sustain plant ecosystems. Without ...

A former world champion left a haunting mark of guilt at his home where he slaughtered his family with his friends still ...

A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices.

A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson ...

Chris Benoit is perhaps the most infamous WWE wrestler of all time after the Canadian killed his wife and son before taking ...

Former WWE wrestler Chris Benoit murdered his wife Nancy and seven-year-old son Daniel before hanging himself in 2007 in a ...