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, ...

It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s crematory in West Baltimore uses hot water, chemicals and a bit of agitation to dissolve ...

A family-owned funeral home in Missouri purchased the 19th-century building and converted it into an operation for performing alkaline hydrolysis — a water-based alternative to traditional cremation.

On a frigid January day, there was unusual activity at a long-dormant red brick building on Sublette Avenue in St. Louis. Jon Hughes, a funeral home operator, watched a team of professional movers in ...

After the alkaline hydrolysis process is completed, the bone remains will be collected from the stainless steel basket from inside the alkaline hydrolysis machine. Credit: Screenshot Eric Neuhaus ...

The process - called alkaline hydrolysis - will offer families a third option instead of burial or traditional cremation.

Dec. 7—ROCHESTER — Dean Fisher has dedicated his retirement time toward legalizing and providing water cremation, or alkaline hydrolysis, around the world. Fisher has been surrounded by death for ...

With climate change gaining prominence, there’s a concerted effort around ensuring eco-friendly, well, everything – including end-of-life processes. While traditional fire cremation burns fossil fuels ...

President and CEO of the Cincinnati School of Mortuary Science Jack Lechner points out new construction at the school, which includes an environmentally friendly cremator to be finished in August. The ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A new bill filed in the Texas Legislature calls for funeral homes to be allowed to cremate human remains through the process of alkaline hydrolysis. According to the Cremation ...

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