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 ...

UNDATED (WKRC/KIMT/CBS Newspath) - Funeral directors are offering water cremation as a new option, although it's not legal in every state. Natural water cremation, also known as alkaline hydrolysis, ...

AS AN ALTERNATIVE. WHO IS THE MOST COMMON PUBLIC REACTION TO WATER CREMATION? SUPPORTERS EMPHASIZE, THOUGH THEY’RE NOT BOILING ANYONE. IT’S MORE LIKE PLACING THE BODY IN A BIG WASHING MACHINE.

When Stephanie Burris drives by graveyards near her home in Boulder County, Colorado, she sees thousands of tiny landfills: Concrete boxes filled with non-biodegradable caskets, which are lined with ...

Joseph H Brown III, owner Joseph H Brown Jr. Funeral Home, offers alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation at their OnSite Cremation LLC facility. He says this is a greener, though more costly, option ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Montgomery County, Maryland is considering becoming the first jurisdiction in the D.C. region (But second in the state) to allow a more eco-friendly alternative to traditional ...

The way we say goodbye is changing. More families today are looking past traditional burial and flame cremation, asking themselves a quieter question: is there a kinder, greener way to leave this ...

The saying that humans are born from and return to dust may soon become outdated. Recently, the Scottish autonomous government officially permitted "water cremation," a method of dissolving bodies ...