By Nick VinZant June 21, 2017 As soon as Florence Moss opened the mail and looked at her bill she says she knew something was wrong. "I feel like I got ripped off," said Moss. That's when she called News 4 Tucson Investigator Nick VinZant. Now, Moss says she had a...
By Sarah M. Wojcik June 19, 2017 WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP — For generations, the Beidler family has helped inter loved ones in their final resting places, but economics and shifting preferences toward cremation are forcing the business to rethink its operations, including...
By Lesli White June 15, 2017 Does cremation interfere with the resurrection? Is it wrong to cremate a person’s body according to the Bible? Historically, cremation has not been part of the Christian tradition. Early Christians agreed with their Jewish ancestors that...
By Peter Smith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette June 3, 2017 PITTSBURGH (AP) — When Scott Beinhauer's forebears expanded their funeral business in 1921 with a location just south of the then-new Liberty Tunnel, they added a rare piece of equipment: a crematory. For nearly a...
By Ellen Endo June 20, 2017 CHICAGO — Former marketing executive Michi Kustra is introducing new design sophistication and Japanese aesthetics to memorial urns and changing the way many Americans are choosing to remember their loved ones. Kustra credits life’s...
by Sanya Jain February 20, 2017 In a bizarre incident, a 17-year-old boy 'woke up' on the way to his funeral in a Karnataka village. Kumar Marewad was bitten by a stray dog about a month ago, after which he developed high fever last week, reports The Times of...
There are only 4 places in Canada that offer natural burials — 3 in Ontario and 1 in B.C. The Canadian Press Posted: April 14, 2016 The leader of Manitoba's Green Party wants to see the province do more to encourage what he calls human composting — natural burials...
By Michael Tutton March 11, 2016 HALIFAX – A British man who was jailed for six days after Canadian border agents carried out a drug test on a recently deceased friend’s ashes says he’s angered it took so long before a retest allowed his release from a small cell....
By William Kremer May 21, 2017 For decades, most people arranging a funeral have faced a simple choice - burial or cremation? But in parts of the US and Canada a third option is now available - dissolving bodies in an alkaline solution. It will arrive in the UK soon....
'Most people don’t understand exactly what questions they should be asking' By Yvonne Colbert January 11, 2017 A majority of Nova Scotians who die are now being cremated rather than buried in caskets, but a CBC Nova Scotia investigation has found the costs that come...