A Lancaster County man was recently arrested for stealing remains, including mummified children. He doesn't represent ethical ...

Immediately after cardiac death, the most noticeable change is cooling of the body, a process known as algor mortis. Body ...

End-of-life planning can be an unexpected opportunity for reflection — a way to express values, care for the environment, and leave loved ones with clarity rather than questions.” ...

THE warped world of body brokers, where people who acquire and sell human cadavers, has become a multi-million-pound industry ...

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

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

John Swinney has expressed deep concern after a Glasgow hospital released the wrong body for cremation, prompting calls for a report to be published.

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

Several of the early bills already pitched for the 2026 Indiana General Assembly deal with mortality, and all from a different perspective ...

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 ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...