The ashes of a British mother whose family set them adrift as a message in a bottle have been found by a German couple after they washed up on a…
A mountain ravaged by recent wildfires experiencing a rebirth with the arrival of spring as thousands of cherry trees bloomed among the ashes. Breath-taking aerial images show one side of…
Undercover undertakers are said to be flouting laws that ban water burials of loved ones' ashes with covert ceremonies in a pristine Swiss lake. Funeral directors near 39-mile-long Lake Constance,…
Undertakers have revealed that the number of Germans asking for their deceased loved ones' ashes to be sent to Switzerland has dramatically increased in the past 10 years. Swiss funeral…
A dog owner was left shocked after dropping off her pooch at a pet shop for a bath before it was returned to her as ashes in a box. The…
The city of Kyoto in Japan is reportedly planning to sell the precious metals found in cremated bodies from things like denture fillings. Most Japanese people are cremated after they…
Archaeologists have revealed how the elite from ancient Mayan civilisations became rubber balls to be used in their games. Studies of grease markings in the walls of a centuries old…
The charred remains of 8,000 victims of a Nazi World War II death camp have been unearthed in woodlands in northern Poland. Experts say 17.5 tonnes of human ashes have…