Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A year after my mother died, my family spread some of her ashes off the Irish coast and decided to spread the remaining ashes ...

SEATTLE — Recent surveys report that 1 in 5 households on the west coast contains the cremated remains of a loved one. Finding a site that honors the lives of those who have passed while offering the ...

So you're finally dead. Now what? Well, if you're one of the more than 17,000 people in Nevada who will be cremated this year, your first stop is likely to be a secure, refrigerated storage room at ...

According to the National Funeral Directors’ Association, the cremation rate in the United States is expected to pass 82% by 2045. The urn is on the shelf, but it doesn’t feel right. It holds someone ...

Ad Resurgendum Cum Christo (To Rise With Christ), published Oct. 25, states that the Church ‘continues to prefer the practice of burying the bodies of the deceased, because this shows a greater esteem ...

The phone call, when it comes, tends to arrive at an ordinary moment. You might be making coffee, folding laundry, or just sitting quietly. And then the words come through: your loved one’s ashes are ...

The Vatican announced Tuesday that Catholics may be cremated but should not have their ashes scattered at sea or kept in urns at home. According to new guidelines from the Vatican’s doctrinal office, ...

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 ...

A year after my mother died, my family spread some of her ashes off the Irish coast and decided to spread the remaining ashes later. That was in 2011. When my father died four years later, he also ...