Police say a Pennsylvania man who had about 100 sets of human remains is charged with stealing from a graveyard at the edge ...

The premise of a green burial, say advocates of the practice, is to return us to the Earth, replenish it and help it to outlive us.

I write these words after far too many tears shed together with bereaved families—families placed in painful and often avoidable situations simply because the right conversations did not happen ...

Evidence suggests ancient hunter-gatherers performed the first ever African cremation of a female sometime around 9,500 years ...

The oldest known cremation found in Africa, dating from 9,500 years ago, raises a question: Why were the remains burned in ...

A former Minnesota funeral director has been charged with the post-death decapitation of a woman whose skull was found by Boy Scouts in western Wisconsin woods nearly a quarter-century ago. Benjamin ...

A team from the Israeli volunteer rescue service ZAKA on Tuesday (December 16) assisted Australian authorities after a deadly attack at a Hanukkah gathering in Sydney that left 15 victims and one ...

A macabre investigation is underway in southeastern North Carolina, after one body too many showed up at funeral home. Among the many mysteries in the case is the identity of the dead woman – and how ...

The body was discovered inside a funeral home in the 3800 block of Raeford Road in Fayetteville, police said. Maps show Cunningham Mortuary & Cremation is located at ...

Fayetteville police are seeking the public's help to identify a deceased elderly woman. Her body was left at a Raeford Road funeral home in May without any accompanying paperwork. The woman is ...