Jeffrey Rich woke up last July to find his husband not breathing beside him in bed. When Jeff Wright, 57, could not be revived, Rich started looking for ways to honor his life, and to help the living ...

Steve Ball’s grave was marked not by a granite headstone or marble mausoleum upon the burial of his cremated remains last year, but a flat rock chipped into the shape of a heart. It came from his ...

Diane Holick has long known she doesn’t want to be buried in a box after she dies. Nor does she want to be cremated. Instead, she wants what’s known as a natural burial, a type of funeral that eschews ...

(The Conversation) — Green burial is not a new concept, but it is gaining interest among consumers, and some religious groups are leading the way. A theologian explains what’s involved and who natural ...

Conservation burials allow for bodies to decompose and become part of the surrounding ecosystem. If you search online for “green death,” the first results might include a “Doctor Who” television ...

As bagpipes played, Janet McAliley’s family pulled her casket of woven seagrass on a wooden wagon down a dirt path through a wild green meadow in Central Florida. In life, McAliley was a moral pillar ...

For two years, Joel Rimstad eyed a small historic cemetery a mile north of St. Peter to plot out his plan to offer green burials. This week, it became official. The Traverse-Green Lawn Cemetery, ...

Elderly Son, who passed in early January from a heart attack, was cremated; her ashes were scattered in a man-made lake. Despite her family’s wishes for her ashes to remain in a columbarium for family ...