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Authorities want to track down the loved ones of 154 cremated remains discovered in warehouse
Based near San Franciso, Oceanview Cremations had its business license revoked in 2018 but continue…
Bethany Dawson
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Meet the 30-year-old startup founder turning cremated ashes into decorative 'stones' for more tangible grieving
Justin Crowe said ashes can be a persistent form of guilt and frustration for loved ones. For $595,…
Jenny Powers
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The Teton County Coroner released Gabby Petito's body for cremation
Coroner Dr. Brent Blue had determined on Tuesday that Petito died of "manual strangulation/throttli…
Azmi Haroun,Natalie Musumeci
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A New York man got a package from a funeral home in the mail. Inside were the cremated remains of a man he'd never met.
New York musician Hamilton Leithauser got the cremated remains of a stranger who died in 2017 shipp…
Aidan Pollard
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India built a park using the ashes of 6,000 people who died from COVID and it's a memorial to those who perished in the pandemic
In many cases, entire families died from the virus, leaving no one to pick up the ashes of the dece…
Cheryl Teh
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People in India are being cremated in parking lots, with so much demand that families have to take tickets and wait
India is buckling under a devastating COVID-19 surge. Some 370,000 positive tests were reported Thu…
Bill Bostock
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A perfect storm of 4 factors has fueled India's harrowing coronavirus surge. Other countries could be next.
Had India used the winter to ramp up testing, genomic surveillance, and the supply of critical medi…
Aria Bendix
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LA County has suspended air-quality regulations that limit the number of cremations as it handles a 'backlog' of bodies from the pandemic
LA County is currently seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases and has reported 13,848 deaths from the vir…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Decomposing bodies, open containers of cremated remains found in garage of unlicensed New York funeral home, police say
Police searched Ehle-Barnett Funeral Home in Johnstown, New York, after a family who paid for a cre…
Sophia Ankel
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For $595, a company will transform a dead person or pet into smooth 'parting stones' that slip into your pocket
The polished "solidified remains" feel more precious and less creepy than an urn full of cremated r…
Susie Neilson,Dave Mosher
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A California couple trusted a funeral home to cremate their stillborn baby. But the funeral home ghosted them and then its facility went up in flames. They're still looking for answers.
Shavonne Morton told Insider she went through painful labor expressly to honor an 'intact' body, bu…
Yelena Dzhanova
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A funeral home owner sold organs and body parts without permission for years and returned fake cremations where customers received concrete mix or swapped ashes, prosecutors say
In an email to a medical customer buying organs, the woman wrote, "How about a deal on 3 full embal…
Azmi Haroun
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A family believed they cremated their lost cat - until he came home nearly a month later
Owner Rachel Fitzsimons told Insider that she saw a cat corpse on the side of the road and was sure…