Where It’s Legal to Scatter Ashes (and Where It Isn’t)
Scattering the ashes of a cremated relative at a place they loved in life can be a powerful and poetic experience, provided the place they loved isn’t Yankee stadium. If…
You Can Bury Your Dead at Sea (Because It’s Free, Eco-Friendly, and Totally Legal)
The American death industry is a racket. Everything is overpriced. The average coffin will cost between $2,000–$5,000, and according to some sources, the cost of a cremation averages between $4,000…
How to Avoid Going Broke When a Loved One Dies
Photo: Anze Furlan (Shutterstock) Whatever you think is waiting for us all at the end of our lives, there’s one undeniable universal truth: After you die, someone is going to…
UP Man Cremated His Father. A Week Later Was Told He’s Alive, In Hospital
The family was observing 13 days of mourning, police said.Shahjahanpur: A week after a man in Uttar Pradesh cremated the body of his “father”, it was revealed that the latter…
You Should Have Your Body Composted When You Die
Photo: maeching chaiwongwatthana (Shutterstock) You’re going to die one day. The end of your life is coming and you may not know how, when, or why it will happen, but…
What Should I Do With These Mysterious Cremains?
Photo: Luca Iannuzzi (Shutterstock) Not all advice need be professional. Sometimes your problems merit a bit of unvarnished honesty from a dude equipped with nothing more than a computer and…
Stone Age people were cremating their dead about 9000 years ago
By Michael Marshall These cremated bones are 9000 years oldBocquentin et al, 2020 (PLOS ONE, CC BY) Stone Age people were cremating their dead in fire pits about 9000 years…