“By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” —Genesis 3:19 This Old Testament quote ...

A columbarium is like a mausoleum but for cremated remains. A columbarium "niche" (essentially an urn cubby) can range inprice from about $300 to $2,800. The costs associated with passing on can vary ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A New Mexico woman had her son’s remains returned after a bizarre run-in with a grave robber. The cell phone video shows Cassandra Trujillo, digging up her ex-boyfriend Nathan ...

WHITEHALL, MI - Whitehall funeral director Thomas Claude Clock III has been charged with felonies for allegedly performing services without a license and burying an empty urn at a funeral, misleading ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Another Burr Oak Cemetery employee has been linked to criminal activity in cemeteries, this time involving the theft of decorative urns. As WBBM Newsradio's Steve Miller reports, two ...

Families who choose to receive an urn or commemorative plaque on behalf of a deceased veteran forfeit the right to bury that veteran in a national cemetery under a new Department of Veterans Affairs ...

Veterans would be able to retain their full Department of Veterans Affairs benefit to be buried at a national cemetery even if they previously chose to get a plaque or urn for their remains under a ...

A funeral urn filled with ashes was found abandoned in 2022 on a park bench in Tennessee, more than 1,000 miles east of Minneapolis. As Jamie Moloney, director of pastoral o ...

In recent years, Catholics have increasingly chosen to scatter the ashes of loved ones — or keep them close by, at home — as a way to honor their lives. The Vatican, though, doesn’t condone the ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...

"The dearest place on this earth, for me, is the patch of grass beside my parents' grave." So goes a 19th-century German dirge describing a family's last resting place. In times of globalization, ...