The Temoney family is devastated after a tragic incident at a Northeast D.C. cemetery during the burial of their loved one.

Historians estimate cremation developed as a funeral practice about 5,000 years ago, but it’s only become popular in the United States over the past couple decades. More than 60% of ...

Jim Belote gave his final gift — himself — to the trees he’d always loved. He was buried without embalming, in a painted cardboard casket in the green burial section of Chassell Cemetery. It was the ...