An archaeologist excavates one of the ceramic urns at the site of Lago do Cochila in Fonte Boa, Brazil. LAGO DO CHOCILA, ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

A Colorado man who gave grieving families urns filled with dry concrete instead of their loved ones’ ashes has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison — the maximum possible sentence, authorities ...

Green burials in Hong Kong have reached record highs, thanks in no small part to the Food & Environmental Hygiene ...

The columbarium allows just that. Built last Fall, it serves as a final resting place for alumni, staff, students and friends of Virginia Tech. It's complete with views of the duck pond and campus.

His urn is simple: A brown box labeled John Doe No. 159 because no one knows who he was in life. He was cremated April 5, and his ashes stashed in a columbarium at the paupers cemetery, along with ...

At Holy Hope, a burial for an urn costs $2,325, including grave space, endowment care and installation of an urn vault. For the urn to be placed in a niche in the mausoleum, the cost is $4,800.

Kelly Yan started Piepie Pet Memorial to comfort pet parents and give them closure at the end of their furry, feathered or ...

Before the ashes were found, Ms. Nadeau hadn’t thought much about space travel — between her job, volunteering, the co-op board and raising two teenagers, there was plenty to keep her busy on ...

An emotional appeal has been made to redesign and relocate a recently erected columbarium wall in a Co Cork graveyard that looks like "it was thrown up". The design of the wall, which holds urns ...

The pink urn containing her ashes will be kept at home instead of at a columbarium. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The crowd then escorted a hearse containing her ashes before she was sent off to her final resting place at the nearby Tian Ning Columbarium. There, just about everyone offered their own final ...