Pest control and cremation are among Dudley Council services earmarked for a price hike in 2026. Members of the council's ...

A WOMAN who lost her childhood sweetheart to cancer has installed a 'Letters to Heaven' postbox at Carlisle Crematorium, giving grieving families a place to feel close to lost loved ones.

What’s terribly sad is the methods people are now using to pay these huge prices. SunLife’s survey showed bereaved families ...

Archaeologists discovered possibly the oldest known cremation pyre in Africa, clarifying the issues of cultural complexity of ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

Several of the early bills already pitched for the 2026 Indiana General Assembly deal with mortality, and all from a ...

I write these words after far too many tears shed together with bereaved families—families placed in painful and often avoidable situations simply because the right conversations did not happen ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 ...

Archaeologists have discovered Africa’s oldest known cremation pyre at the base of Mount Hora in Malawi. According to a paper ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

An ancient pyre in a Malawi cave reveals the world's oldest adult cremation, offering a rare glimpse into early African ...

New evidence of cremation 9,500 years ago in south-central Africa challenges long-held notions about how hunter-gatherers ...