A 95-year-old man's funeral in Balasore was delayed for two days due to a dispute over burial customs. While the deceased's ...

Scientists confirm a toxic red pigment in a 2,000-year-old Scythian grave, offering new insight into ancient burial rituals ...

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 ...

A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices.

The premise of a green burial, say advocates of the practice, is to return us to the Earth, replenish it and help it to outlive us.

The updated regulations — which represent the first major overhaul since 2012 — will take effect on March 30, introducing ...

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

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 ...