SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Nearly half of all people who die in the U.S. are now cremated, with many of those ashes being scattered or placed in urns. But more and more people are now using their loved ...

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 ...

From left to right: Anna's rose bush with the ashes of her grandmother planted within the roots, The Living Urn planting system. All photos courtesy of The Living Urn The Local newsletter is your free ...

None of us knows where we go after we die. But as overcrowded cities run out of real estate for cemeteries, interest in leaving a smaller footprint even in death grows. Designers have been ...

Things change when you get you married. That is how it should be, of course. You’ve moved from the single minded, self interested place of caring mostly for yourself to sharing a life with someone ...

If you want the memory of your loved ones or family pets to live on you can now immortalise them as a tree. A Barcelona firm has designed a biodegradable urn that is planted in the ground and can be ...

Spanish company, Bios Urn, has developed a fully biodegradable urn that allows people to grow a tree from the ashes of a loved one’s mortal remains. The company hope the urn will offer users a natural ...

A Spanish entrepreneur has designed a biodegradable urn containing a seed that allows human remains to turn into new, green life within a few years. He has already sold more than 20,000. #doingyourbit ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Tourism Product Development Company Limited (TPDCo) is reaffirming its commitment to ensuring the highest standards of executi ...