Green burials have caught on as people look for eco-friendly ways to handle their remains. Water cremation is another way and ...

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 ...

A sustainable option for what to do with our remains is trickling into popular consciousness Lauren Oster At 9 p.m. on New Year’s Day, Samantha Sieber was in her pajamas and watching a movie with her ...

A family-owned funeral home in Missouri purchased the 19th-century building and converted it into an operation for performing alkaline hydrolysis — a water-based alternative to traditional cremation.

On a frigid January day, there was unusual activity at a long-dormant red brick building on Sublette Avenue in St. Louis. Jon Hughes, a funeral home operator, watched a team of professional movers in ...

A North Queensland undertaker has developed a world-first prototype that will change the funeral industry, and save the environment in the process. Now Jeff Boyle of Whitsunday Funerals is set to put ...

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 ...

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Proponents of alkaline hydrolysis, a process of liquidising human remains, say the technology is a cheaper, greener and more ‘calming’ way of returning to the earth Sign up for a weekly email ...

Durham University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Already a popular option in the US, and famously chosen by Archbishop Desmond Tutu who died in 2021, alkaline ...

The UK is taking steps toward legalizing "water cremation" as a new funeral method, providing a third option alongside traditional burial and flame cremation. The UK Law Commission is currently ...