Alkaline hydrolysis relies on water and alkaline chemicals to turn a dead body into bone fragments and a neutral effluent.

When people in Maine die without resources or family to pay for their burial or cremation, General Assistance ... obituaries and urns. Under General Assistance, the state will pay up to $1,620 ...

Want to learn how to run a funeral home? Cape Cod Community College has a program for that, partnering with Bridgewater State ...

Rivero is a funeral director at Pacific Interment Service in Emeryville, and the futuristic machine is an aquamation system. It uses water to dissolve every part of the human body except for the bones ...

An Ancient North African Civilization Sacrificed Their Young Children to Gods as Part of a Religious Practice In ancient Carthage, (now in Tunisia) the civilization used to follow brutal rituals of ...

REFUGEES who arrived in Britain by small boats or other unapproved ... “It will not prevent people making dangerous journeys.” Aberdeenshire SNP councillor Fatima Joji added: “Labour tried to bury ...

Opponents of the proposed rule largely argued against the unknown risks of soil made from human remains. Andrew Anderson, ...

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Rebels in eastern Congo's largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week's battles for the city as they feared the ...

Large swaths of Earth may soon be too hot for humans to handle. As early as mid-century, roughly a billion hectares of land — about the land area of the United States ­— or more could hit ...

“The Japanese are a very kind and honest people,” he says ... While most Japanese today consider cremation to be a nonreligious practice, burial for Muslims is deeply wrapped up in their ...