State, Baltimore officials look to “water cremation” as a greener way to die
A Baltimore funeral home is bringing a new meaning to the term "watery grave": At the Joseph H. Brown Funeral Home, officials ...
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Archaeologists Are Bewildered by a Skeleton Made From the Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart
Found in a cremation cemetery in Belgium, the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull, ...
Billings Gazette4d
Eco-death: Green burials now offered in Billings
The average cost of a simple or direct cremation is now $2,476 with ... s largest and oldest continually operating burial ...
Cost of a funeral has jumped 6% to £4,706 on average over the past year
The average cost of a cremation including a service has risen 6.1 per cent to £4,431 this year, the L&G study found.
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Archaeologists Uncovered A Large Viking Age Burial Ground In Sweden With 139 Graves, Some Shaped Like Ships
More than a hundred graves with several mounds shaped like ships were discovered in a Viking Age cemetery in southwestern ...
Remains of more than 100 unclaimed people laid to rest in Louisiana mausoleum
Employees of a Louisiana coroner's office and a local funeral home owner prepared to bring 107 people to their final resting place.
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Unclaimed remains of six Michigan veterans honored with military burials
Six Michigan veterans whose remains went unclaimed for a number of years received their proper military burials Friday. The ceremonies were held at Fort Custer National Cemetery, near Battle Creek.
Unclaimed veteran's remains stored 11 months due to 'clerical error'
The uncremated remains of an "unclaimed" US Marines veteran sat in a funeral home cooling system in Madison for 11 months.
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Unknown Korean War service member is laid to rest at UN cemetery in South Korea
at the only cemetery overseen by the command. The burial ground, roughly 200 miles southeast of Seoul, holds the remains of 2,329 veterans from 14 member states who participated in the 1950-53 ...
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Egyptians exhume loved one's remains as historic cemetery partially razed
Twenty years after burying him, Egyptian architect Ahmed el-Meligui was forced to exhume his grandfather's remains from ... from his family's burial ground, the Khayalah cemetery was completely ...
Donegal News3d
Deaths in Donegal, Monday, November 11
The following deaths have taken place in Donegal: The death has occurred of Maureen Kelly (née McLaughlin),Creesloughbeg, ...
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‘Ensuring their lives are remembered’: Memorial ceremony honors indigent and unclaimed decedents
Watch above: Community and faith-based organizations leaders speak at this year's "Honoring the Departed" ceremony at ...