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 ...

According to the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), 56 percent of Americans who died in 2020 were cremated. That's more than twice the rate two decades ago. From The Washington Post: ...

Traditional funerals are in decline in the UK for several reasons. Primary among them is the rising cost of funerals. The ...

The most terrible were those taken in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic: dozens and dozens of photographs of coffins piled ...