Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, is awash in small-town trappings: tree-lined roads, rolling lawns, and street signs at every corner. On this Wednesday midsummer morning, the familiar routine ...

Cremation at death is steadily gaining in popularity, but so is the number of deceased people whose ashes are abandoned at funeral homes and cemeteries. Which raises a question: What's happening to ...

History is filled with rich rulers who were buried blinged-out in emeralds, diamonds, and other precious gems. But it’s only recently that humans themselves can literally become precious stones. Swiss ...

Petra McDermott is determined to recover her mother's cremated remains, which were lost by USPS after being sent from Germany. The remains have been tracked across multiple states, including Florida, ...

When we think of ashes, there are many images that might come to mind—the powdery remnants at the bottom of a fireplace in deep winter, the soft bed of a crackling campfire in the mountains, volcanic ...

An Ohio woman said her father's cremated remains were lost in the mail after United States Postal Service (USPS) misplaced them. Angela Johnson, 51, waited for the cremated remains of her father ...

Federal and local officials are investigating after over 100 piles of cremated human remains were reported on federal lands near a small town in Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management confirmed to USA ...

AIKEN — The wife of a man who was wrongfully cremated by an area funeral home has taken legal action. Colleen McGlen, the wife of Charles Taylor, has filed a lawsuit against the Aiken County Coroner’s ...

Special delivery from the US ghost office. A Brooklyn-based indie-rocker got a package of cremated human remains belonging to a stranger in the mail — and was stunned when the funeral home that sent ...

HOUSTON — A Texas family is suing a funeral home accused of cremating a woman who was supposed to be buried, then giving her ashes to another family. Roberta Salazar's relatives say the 79-year-old ...