Earlier this year, more than 300 piles of human cremated remains were discovered on public land south of Las Vegas. A local ...

Illustration of a Celestis spacecraft heading to the moon. Credit: CasparStanley / DeviantArt; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Old folk tales suggested that anything lost on Earth magically migrated to the moon: ...

A vault formerly used to hold bodies until graves could be dug in the spring is converted into a columbarium to hold unclaimed cremains of Greater Lafayette residents.

An urn on the mantel is always a respectful, tasteful option. But cremains can also be used in paintings, packed into fireworks, molded into Frisbees, shot into space, mixed in with comic-book ink and ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- In November 2018, the Camp Fire decimated the rural town of Paradise, California, becoming the state's most destructive and deadliest wildfire ever. The windswept wildfire razed ...

The unclaimed cremains of five military veterans have been buried with full honors at a national cemetery in southwestern Michigan. The cremains, which had gone unclaimed in a morgue for months, were ...

LITTLETON, Colo — A Denver metro area hospital recently discovered 31 cremains from miscarriages that had been stored for a "longer than expected timeline." The cremains were found at AdventHealth ...

Jennifer Dailey is still reeling two years after losing her baby girl. “I had a stillborn baby.” Jerrica Sky died in April 2015 and was to be cremated at the Bauer Funeral Home in Kittanning. Dailey ...

A few weeks ago, a savvy Web traveler alerted us to memorials.com, a funeral products website that, alongside the requisite caskets, headstones and urns, sells a set of items we found disturbing and ...

DETROIT – About two dozen people gathered Friday at a Detroit cemetery to remember loved ones whose cremated remains were recovered from a local funeral home after it was shut down by the state for ...

In November 2018, the Camp Fire decimated the rural town of Paradise, California, becoming the state's most destructive and deadliest wildfire ever. The windswept wildfire razed more than 14,000 ...