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A funeral home in Florida has just unveiled what it claims is a new “green” way to dispose of bodies: dissolving them in heated alkaline water.
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Columbus -
A mix-up by an Ohio coroner's office that resulted in the cremation of the wrong child was resolved by the Franklin County Commission who approved an agreement to pay $68,000 to the distraught parents of both the deceased children.
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A woman in the UK has been sentenced to eight months in jail for dumping the bodies of pets in a field while their owners were charged for cremation.
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Dayton -
One of two Ohio plane crash victims was mistakenly cremated when a county coroner mixed up the victims' wallets at the crash site.
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Montussaint -
The business of death can be a costly affair especially when the deceased is overweight as the recent case of Frenchman Michel Fontalirand illustrates.
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An ageing Hindu man, living in Great Britain, wants to be cremated in the traditional style used in South Asia - in the open air and using real fire. He's in court for the third time now to challenge the prohibition of this sacred ritual.
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When friends and family arrived at the Buckmiller Brothers Funeral Home in Prospect, Connecticut, for the wake of 95-year-old Aurelie Germaine Tuccillo Tuesday evening, they noticed the body in the coffin didn’t really look like her.
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The Pentagon is changing military cremation procedures after a soldier complained that a friend's remains were taken to what he considered a pet crematorium.
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Each year, each month, every day, there are homeless veterans who pass away and leave this world unknown and unidentified. One group has been formed to begin a process of finding those who have been forgotten.
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A British company says it has an eco-friendly alternative to cremation: boiling bodies into dust. The process is called resomation. The body is put into a silk coffin and put in water mixed with potassium hydroxide.
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A report by the Pentagon finds that partial remains of some 9/11 victims ended up in a military landfill site after being cremated at a US air base.
Now the deceased, when they step into the great beyond, can do so without leaving behind a carbon footprint. In what may be the last word in 'going green,' a handful of funeral homes are offering an alternative to 'flame' cremation. Called alkaline hydrolysis, it uses lye and hot water to liquefy the loved-one, then sends him down the drain.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries some extra cargo: the cremated ashes of 300 souls. They include James Doohan (Scotty of 'Star Trek' fame) and Gordon Cooper, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.
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