Bodies don't go into the pods. Rather, cremated human remains are placed in the biodegradable, plastic-derived urns, and then those urns get covered in soil. After that, a pre-existing tree gets ...

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - Coffins and cremations are so 2015. Designers in Italy have developed an egg-shaped burial pod which biodegrades and transforms the body of the deceased into a tree. Sound weird?

Two Italian designers are bringing a new meaning to "family tree." Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel proposed a plan to make cemeteries more eco-friendly by replacing headstones with trees. It's called ...

With over 7 billion people on the planet, all of whom have an expiration date, outdated modes of burial really have to be revisited. There just isn’t enough space to accommodate the remains of an ever ...

For a few years, I worked as an assistant to a woman who owned a number of funeral homes, so I'm pretty well versed with funeral-speak. Jealous? While most people use the word coffin, it's actually ...

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Cemeteries take up a lot of space, and cremating one person can take as much energy as that person used in a month back when they were alive. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign ...

The cemetery can be a grim place. Hulking tombstones and mausoleums serve as a constant reminder of the passage of time and our own mortality. But one Italian initiative is out to change all that, and ...

It's a familiar conversation in our house. When my husband dies, he wants to be cremated, with his ashes scattered in beloved locations ranging from the river behind our house to national parks ...