BETHLEHEM, Pa. - In life, Patrick Ytsma made it a point to minimize his drag on the environment, in part by riding his bike nearly everywhere he went. So it was fitting that when he died at 53, after ...

Steve Ball’s grave was marked not by a granite headstone or marble mausoleum upon the burial of his cremated remains last year, but a flat rock chipped into the shape of a heart. It came from his ...

Like most activities that are performed with skill and elegance, natural burial is an art, and the artists are many and varied. They play critical roles throughout the entire implementation of a ...

GOLDENDALE, Wash. - Steve Sall moved forward on uneven, rocky terrain in his motorized wheelchair and came to a stop at the edge of a sweeping vista of ponderosa pines and bright pockets of yellow ...

The city of Sumner is reviving a burial practice that is thousands of years old. The cemetery at 12324 Valley Ave. E. will have an area called the Rainier Valley green burial site. It is a place where ...

WASHINGTON — Christopher, a Marine Corps veteran who survived a truck explosion while serving in Afghanistan, said the near-death experience caused him to consider his own mortality and how he wants ...

The premise of a green burial, say advocates of the practice, is to return us to the Earth, replenish it and help it to outlive us.

BALTIMORE - The question no one wants to consider, yet, someday, we will all have to answer: What should be done with your body, or your ashes, once you have died? A burial trend is natural or 'green' ...