Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 13—ROCHESTER — The generation known for challenging social norms and traditions is dying to change another industry. Green ...

Green burials have been growing in popularity across the United States in recent years. Green burial is an alternative to embalming bodies, or cremation, and often looks like being buried in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 16—Barb Newcamp wasn't dying to get in, exactly, but she was certainly eager to be first in line. So when Greendale Cemetery ...

Starting next year, the storied cemetery will offer a new burial option: “natural organic reduction,” also known as human composting.

WASHINGTON — Christopher, a Marine Corps veteran who survived a truck explosion while serving in Afghanistan, said the near-death experience caused him to consider his own mortality and how he wants ...

The idea is when you die, they dig a hole, wrap your body and lay it in the ground to decompose naturally. There are places to do this around the Triangle, including Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. It ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Green burials have been a topic of conversation in Blacksburg as an alternative to traditional ways, and one Blacksburg resident has been waiting for green burials to come to town.

Ginny Boll loves life. The 78-year-old former nun operates a dog-grooming business in Wisconsin in a small shed near her home on her woodland property. When she dies, Boll says she wants her friends ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - In life, Patrick Ytsma made it a point to minimize his drag on the environment, in part by riding his bike nearly everywhere he went. So it was fitting that when he died at 53, after ...

The Cemetery Commission indicated it had no issues with the addition of so-called "green" burials at Southview Cemetery and ...

ROCHESTER — The generation known for challenging social norms and traditions is dying to change another industry. Green burials are becoming more in demand as baby boomers plan their deaths. Industry ...