What should families expect when comparing burial and cremation services during funeral planning? HelloNation has published the answer in an article featuring insights from Funeral Service Expert J.

(THE CONVERSATION) Nearly two-thirds of Americans now opt for cremation – a figure that has been steadily increasing over five decades. On the surface, that proportion tells a simple story: The nation ...

A funeral typically costs between $6,280 and $8,300. Being buried is more expensive than being cremated because there's an extra cost for a cemetery plot and a headstone, which is usually around ...

Funeral directors are noticing a cultural shift in how families choose to honor their loved ones — and for many, that now ...

According to the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), 56 percent of Americans who died in 2020 were cremated. That's more than twice the rate two decades ago. From The Washington Post: ...

Cremation outpaced traditional burial in the U.S. for the first time in 2015. Here, a cremation urn is shown. When Robert Boetticher, Jr., was in mortuary school in the 1980s, his teachers barely ...

Black urn on the funeral day in church; surrounded with daisies and roses; Shutterstock ID 1934655863; purchase_order: Water Cremation ; job: Time; client: Alis; other: Black urn on the funeral day in ...

When miscarriage happens in the first trimester and there may be little to see or recover, some parents turn to cremation to ...