WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Most people thinking of end-of-life arrangements have faced a choice: traditional burial or flame cremation? But there is a third option, and it's being used locally in Palm ...

With climate change gaining prominence, there’s a concerted effort around ensuring eco-friendly, well, everything – including end-of-life processes. While traditional fire cremation burns fossil fuels ...

The Church of England may soon allow human composting’ at Christian funerals as part of the religious institution’s drive towards net zero. Bishops are considering a consultation group to assess the ...

Dec. 7—ROCHESTER — Dean Fisher has dedicated his retirement time toward legalizing and providing water cremation, or alkaline hydrolysis, around the world. Fisher has been surrounded by death for ...

Funeral directors in 15 states can now offer "water cremation," in which bodies are dissolved in a chemical solution. Some see it as more eco-friendly and less traumatic than consumption by flame. As ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — More and more people are exploring options for end-of-life arrangements and eco-friendly choices are becoming popular. Thomas Trowbridge wanted a gentler alternative to ...

In a quiet Baltimore funeral home, a new era in eco-friendly farewells is unfolding as Maryland embraces "water cremation"—a process that dissolves bodies in chemical baths rather than flames. The ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Montgomery County, Maryland is considering becoming the first jurisdiction in the D.C. region (But second in the state) to allow a more eco-friendly alternative to traditional ...

The process consumes significantly less energy than traditional flame cremation. The bill to make it an approved cremation ...

Water cremation is a relatively new way of processing human remains that has a smaller carbon footprint than flame cremation and is less expensive than burial. Water cremation does use more water than ...

SAND SPRINGS — Despite conditional approval from the City Council, a proposal that would have brought a “water cremation” operation to Sand Springs — only the second such entity in Oklahoma — is on ...

BENNINGTON — Leaf & Water, a Green Cremation Solutions LLC facility, has opened for business providing “flameless,” or water-based, cremation services at a facility on County Street. “Leaf & Water ...