By Lana Clements May 10, 2017 GRIEVING families are being hit by a cruel increases on the cost of cremation and burial fees, according to research. Prices have jumped by an inflation-busting of around five per cent over the last year, piling pressure on the bereaved,...
By Stefani Langenegger May 04, 2017 'You have a loved one who's died; you need to be able to say goodbye': Opposition Joey Reynolds has lived on the streets of Regina on and off for years, as have many of his friends. He said he was shocked when he learned of...
Janet McConnaughey May 2, 2017 NEW ORLEANS -- A south Mississippi funeral home went back on an agreement to cremate an 86-year-old man after he died and paperwork showed he was gay, according to a lawsuit in state court. Picayune Funeral Home had told a nephew...
By Max Jaeger April 30, 2017 The owner of the giant rabbit who died in the care of United Airlines last Tuesday says the scandal-scarred airline cremated her bunny’s remains so she would never know the truth about how it died. “The whole thing stinks of a...
By Adam Boult March 3 2017 A 24-year-old woman from India who was cremated on a funeral pyre may have been alive when the cremation took place, according to local reports. Student Rachna Sisodia had been declared dead at Sharda hospital in Greater Noida, in northern...
By Katherine Rodriguez February 27, 2017 A SYDNEY couple is looking for answers after a major hospital accidentally sent their stillborn daughter to be cremated. Padstow couple Anthony Meyers and Stella Pirko were traumatised after their daughter was wrongly...
By Amy Judd January 24, 2017 For the first time in Canada, residents will have another option for a green burial – to become part of a living reef in the waters off British Columbia. “It’s been in existence for about 15 years down in California and in November...
By Rosa Marchitelli and Rachel Ward January 12, 2017 Alberta funeral home apologizes for overcharging, offers refunds after Go Public investigates Two grieving Alberta families have each been slapped with a $100 carbon tax bill after having a relative cremated,...
By Nicole Winfield October 25, 2016 VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Tuesday published guidelines for Catholics who want to be cremated, saying their remains cannot be scattered, divvied up or kept at home but rather stored in a sacred, church-approved place. The...
By Katerina Pitzner August 17 2016 Have you ever had a makeover? Well, it’s really never too late. Now you can even plan your own post-mortem makeover and turn into a diamond. A few years ago, Swiss-based Algordanza made headlines worldwide with their novel...