Two metal urns weighing a tonne each have been stolen from a Worcestershire village. The heavy urns were taken between 1am on Tuesday, January 2 and 7am on Wednesday, January 3 from Holt Fleet Road in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sports Direct shoppers have been left baffled after the high street giant began selling cheap funeral urns. Eagle-eyed customers noticed a listing featuring the grey aluminium vase with silver trim on ...

Do you know what happens to jewellery, gold teeth, metal hips and coffin nails after cremation? At Roselawn cemetery, just outside Belfast, metals left over after cremation are collected from ashes.

A surge in popularity for cremations in the US is threatening to overwhelm its "mom-and-pop" funeral homes, which count on big burials for their profits. The recipients of the pricey goods Mike ...