On a balmy spring afternoon six years ago, Richard Crowley found himself standing in a small light-filled room in the rear of a chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, looking down on his ...

Cremation and ground burial both have carbon footprints that have some people looking for other options for the afterlife. Proposed ecofriendly and chemistry-centered alternatives include a process ...

Cremation outpaced traditional burial in the U.S. for the first time in 2015. Here, a cremation urn is shown. When Robert Boetticher, Jr., was in mortuary school in the 1980s, his teachers barely ...

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 ...