Trends & Innovations

As more Americans choose cremation—often dispensing with the need for caskets, burial plots and dreary rituals—the funeral industry is reinventing...

WHEN YOU DIE, do you want to be buried or cremated? If the architect Katrina Spade gets her Urban Death...

As cemeteries turn into landfills, Americans are turning to less destructive ways to bury the dead.

Because Christ is our model, ‘by burying the bodies of the faithful, the Church confirms her faith in the resurrection...

Brand Memorials' line of MLB-licensed Cubs memorial products is outselling Yankees, Red Sox and Cardinals caskets and urns.

Most tribute video programs offer a limited number of video templates, limiting a family’s creativity. Tukios’ is the only memorial...

Nourish is a project by Chronicle Cremation Designs made to inspire new perspectives on death. It combines the ashes of...

Through a mortuary simulator and a video game death podcast, Gabby DaRienzo is challenging how gamers approach death.

Homesteaders Life Company, a national leader in prearranged funeral funding, has released a new mobile app enabling funeral professionals to...

Funeral homes saving lives? Sounds crazy right?! The Vital ICE app is an exclusive opportunity for local funeral homes to...