National Cremation Placement Day launches in 2026 by Coldspring to help families find permanent resting places for loved ones ...

The National Funeral Directors Association has predicted that by 2035, nearly 80% of Americans will opt for cremation. When the first U.S. indoor cremation machine was opened in 1876 in Lancaster, ...

According to the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), 56 percent of Americans who died in 2020 were cremated. That's more than twice the rate two decades ago. From The Washington Post: ...

At 9 p.m. on New Year’s Day, Samantha Sieber was in her pajamas and watching a movie with her kids when the first call about Desmond Tutu came in. “I answered my cell phone, and it was BBC World News, ...

In a still from the March 2020 documentary “Death Is Our Business,” an embalmer prepares a body in a New Orleans funeral home. Industry professionals say cremation is on the rise among Black and ...

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Medicare does not cover the costs associated with cremation or other funeral and burial services. The Social Security Administration (SSA) offers a one-time payment of $255 that can be put toward ...

Isha crematoriums, called Kayantha Sthanams, have emerged as a quiet but significant model of how death can be handled with ...

Minnesota Cremation Services™ has been certified as a Women Business Enterprise (WBE), Small Business Enterprise (SBE), and Emerging Small Business Enterprise (ESBE) through the Central Certification ...

Pure Cremation’s advert has been pulled be regulators for claiming an attended funeral service was part of its standard plan ...