A loaded gun went off in a crematorium in Boston last week – after the firearm somehow went undetected by hospital and funeral home staff for two months, 25 Investigates has found. No injuries were ...

Losing a beloved family pet is hard enough, but someone poured salt into the wound when he stole a freezer containing the remains of two dogs awaiting cremation. One was a 13-year-old Husky, which ...

Story update: If you are an Angel Paws customer and are still waiting to receive your pet’s remains, Chris Settle has created an email address to reach him to set up a pick-up time: ...

Scroll to the bottom of the article to see other stories we have published from this series. The process after death may not be for the squeamish. You may feel that funerals are a bit like ...

David Sconce, known as the Cremation King of California, ran a network of crematories in the 1980s that became the focus of a major investigation. Authorities found he overbooked cremations, mixed ...

A shocking incident unfolded at a Buddhist temple in Thailand when a woman believed to be dead was discovered alive inside her coffin just before her cremation was to begin. The incident took place at ...

A 65-year-old Thai woman believed to be dead stunned temple staff in Bangkok when they heard a faint knocking from inside her coffin after her brother brought her in for cremation. Pairat Soodthoop, ...

A 31-year-old teacher, Sumit Kumar, has been educating over 100 slum children at a cremation ground in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, since 2017. Mr. Kumar’s initiative, Appan Pathshala, has transformed the ...