Excuse the bluntness, but once we shuffle off this mortal coil, our bodies are nothing but bags of live bacteria and dead cells. We can attempt to slow our decay (embalming), or we can preempt it with ...

Walter White got it all wrong. If you want to chemically dissolve a body, as the Breaking Bad protagonist ordered his partner Jesse Pinkman to early in the series, you don't just dump it in a bathtub ...

There are an awful lot of tombstones in my neighborhood lately. They bear names like "Noah Scape" and "Izzy Dead." They pop up regularly this time of year, and disappear again in November. And with ...

An Ohio funeral director has been effectively banned from offering a procedure called alkaline hydrolysis, or liquid cremation, even though it’s believed to be better for the environment than ...

When a loved one dies, families typically are left with two options: burial or cremation. A California lawmaker wants to give families a third option, which is being pitched as a "green alternative" ...

A new ‘liquid cremation’ service that a UK council had planned to use has been blocked from going ahead over fears the remains of dead people would make their way into the water system. Sandwell ...

Tucked away in eastern Alameda County is a sprawling 47-acre site that will soon be transformed into the cemetery of the future, expected to serve the Tri-Valley and surrounding region for the next ...

Katrina Spade grew up on a dead-end dirt road in New Hampshire. Her family raised cows, and they ate what they raised. She watched the animals die -- sometimes naturally, sometimes slaughtered for ...

Ontario’s highest court has thrown open the door to a controversial form of liquid cremation known as low-temperature alkaline hydrolysis. Sometimes called aquamation or resomation, alkaline ...

The California State Senate is considering legalizing liquid cremation. If approved, California will join several other states in offering the controversial process. Supporters consider the method ...

In this Feb. 14, 2011, photo provided by Edwards Funeral Home in Columbus, Ohio, Jeff Edwards stands next to an alkaline hydrolysis machine that uses lye and heat to dissolve a body as an alternative ...

Liquid cremation (better and more accurately termed alkaline hydrolysis) resulting in discharge of its waste hydrolysis product via sewers to our already overburdened rivers, is neither socially nor ...