Over the years, owner and director James Kelley has seen many changes in the funeral industry, including cremation becoming ...

Cremation’s rise to 61.9% in 2024, driven by affordability and cultural shifts, has surpassed burials, reshaping the funeral economy with projections of 82% market share by 2045. Cremation has ...

The National Funeral Directors Association says the cremation rate in the United States could potentially exceed 80 percent ...

Nearly half of all people who died nationally last year were cremated and about 36 percent of Arkansans were cremated, according to the National Funeral Directors Association. Industry insiders expect ...

The rate of cremation in Kentucky increased from 12.3% in 2011 to 40.3% last year for reasons that include price and changes in religious identity. Kenneth Earl Wilson, who had worked at a bank and in ...

Throughout history, humanity has developed various ways to honour and remember those who have passed away. From grand ceremonies to quiet memorials, the final send-off is a significant aspect of many ...

Licensed funeral director and certified celebrant Amy Hart removes a compartment at the center of a rose keepsake urn at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 3855 Katz Dr., in Marion on May 30. ...

Modern technology has developed new methods of treating human remains, many of which are incompatible with church teaching, such as “human composting” or alkaline hydrolysis, also known as water ...

South Florida’s rabbis dread receiving the calls. A congregant’s relative demands to be cremated, contrary to Jewish law, while the family wants a traditional Jewish burial. What to tell the family?

Instant cremations have become not a way to celebrate a life, but a way to delete one. I'm afraid of what – of who – is being forgotten.

When it comes to deciding what to do with a dead body, most Minnesotans are now thinking outside of the box. After decades of slow but steady growth, the number of cremations in the state is now ...