Mia Zinn was a member of her middle school ecology club, had planted a reflection garden and had implored public officials to preserve a local woods, and when she became terminally ill, she wanted to ...
A deceased man in Maine has become one of the first people in the United States to be laid to rest in an eco-friendly casket grown from mushrooms and hemp, Maine Public and Fast Company reported. The ...
A loved one passing away is one of the most difficult experiences anyone will go through. And this event can be made all the ...
This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Reporting project. Along a winding, bright green moss trail in Steelmantown Cemetery is a small ...
Seven years ago Jack Davenport, co-owner of Davenport Family Funeral Homes and Crematory, was approached with what seemed to be an unusual request. A family trying to grant the last wishes of a loved ...
A proposed cemetery in Homer Township that would include natural, eco-friendly burials with no caskets has residents, many who use private water wells, concerned about the effects the development ...
Upwards of 3 million people die every year in the United States. As a funeral director who heads a university mortuary ...
UNION, S.C. — (AP) -- Investigators say three caskets and 30 bottles of embalming fluid have been stolen from a Union funeral home. Police said a worker at Gibson and Brown Funeral Home reported a ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (CN) - The state's attorney general has filed a suit seeking to shut down a funeral home that allowed bodies to be stored without refrigeration or embalming more than 10 months. A recent ...