When planning a funeral for a loved one, or for yourself, cremation may be presented as an alternative to burial. In terms of the expense involved, the average cremation cost can range from $1,500 to ...

I would like to arrange a simple cremation that doesn’t cost me, or my family, a lot of money. Can you offer any tips that can help me with this? If you’re looking for a simple and affordable way to ...

If only figuring out what to do with your body after you die was as simple as TV made it seem. "I'm not going to be buried in a grave," said character Frank Reynolds from "It's Always Sunny in ...

I recently landed in Santa Fe, looking forward to meeting the stones. Not the aging but somehow still performing “Rolling Stones,” but the rare gray and robin’s egg blue stones that were once the ...

Losing someone you love changes everything. When the cremation is over and you're handed a small container filled with their ...

When and how we die, we don’t know. But what becomes of our body after death has claimed it should be our choice. That is the essence of one of the more intriguing, forward-looking, and, for some, ...

Most people plan to either be buried or cremated when they die, but there is another, environmentally friendly option: Human composting. "So instead of being cremated and turned into ash, you're ...

More people are turning to cremation (59.7%) rather than burials (35.7%), according to the National Funeral Directors Association’s 2022 report. The average cost of a burial is $7,848 compared to ...

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AUBURN, Wash. — It's never easy to lose a loved one, especially a child. Rebecca Sumner says at just 7 years old, her daughter enjoyed the beauty of nature and was eager to learn about the world ...