MESA, Ariz. - Headlines were made last week when it was revealed human rights activist Desmond Tutu wasn’t cremated, but he was aquamated. A new type of cremation that uses water and is supposedly ...

- Body is placed in a combustible, leak-proof, covered container if a casket is not being used. - The furnace cremates only one body at a time. - Chamber reaches temperatures between 1,400 and 1,800 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --For 20,000 years, people have been using fire to cremate their loved ones. Now, for the first time, there's a new way to do cremations and, if Gov. Pat Quinn signs a measure approved ...

Human teeth resist burning during cremation because of their calcium phosphate composition, requiring extremely high temperatures for full incineration. Teeth and some bones often remain intact.

Reporting from Sacramento — — California funeral directors are eager to start offering clients a new natural and greener way to dispose of their loved ones’ remains, but they need a change in ...

Traditional means of cremation, and the only legal method in Texas, is with the use of a furnace, which burns the human remains into ashes and mineral fragments, which most times are transferred to an ...

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 ...

All I want is my mom back. That's what one local man was saying after he claims a cremation business has given him the runaround about where his mother's remains have been since they were picked up 25 ...