The median cost of a traditional funeral with burial and viewing is about $8,300, according to the most recent data available from the National Funeral Directors Association. Cremation is less ...

With church funerals and burials no longer the norm, pastors hope to restore occasions to gather and remember. Surging cremation rates are upending traditional practices around death, as more people ...

Isha crematoriums, called Kayantha Sthanams, have emerged as a quiet but significant model of how death can be handled with ...