When it comes to matters of life and death, there may be a missing key ingredient of conversation: mushrooms. A new startup has found that fungi can go beyond filling people's plates while they are ...

Dutch designer Maria Tyakina has reimagined the traditional cremation urn as a futuristic domed vessel, in a bid to better suit the modern-day home. The Dome urn is composed of three parts. The hollow ...

When Los Angeles woodworker C.C. Boyce selects locally sourced pieces of California sycamore and speckled maple at Angel City Lumber in Boyle Heights, the artisan has powerful inspiration for her ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Rosewood Cremation and Funerals offers many unique services, such as a Red Cup Celebration: A Toast to Life, Classic Coaches: A Personal Touch, and Custom Urns: A Unique Tribute.

An American company called Cremation Solutions is offering commemorative urns shaped like the severed heads of deceased loved ones. The Vemont-based company, which specialises in memorial events and ...

Following a period of great loss, how we talk about death has changed — so, too, has the way we think it should look. By Isabel Ling Unlike many cultures, Americans have very few rituals surrounding ...

If you're not sold on the idea of the KISS coffin, or if you simply don't want to be buried in a cemetery, your friends in Kiss have solved that dilemma for you. The band is expanding its branded ...

It’s never an easy subject to broach. When it does come, the event is often shrouded in formality, tradition and more often than not, the colour black. But pioneering ceramic artist John Booth is ...

They may be cast in steel, assembled out of driftwood, machined on industrial lathes or hand-carved out of salt, but ultimately all of these urns have two common purposes: to contain and to heal.

When Robert Boetticher, Jr., was in mortuary school in the 1980s, his teachers barely mentioned cremation. And that mindset was reflected in the funeral homes he managed in California the following ...