Yang Zhiwei said sea burials now account for 4 percent of the city's annual cremation services. "In the recent decade, we ...

Neither a cruise ship nor a fishing boat, it was a specialized sea burial ship, carrying mourners and floral tributes for ...

Why does the US Navy still bury sailors at sea? This is in fact a very popular option, and many have to wait over a year to receive this special ceremony. But why the Navy made an exception when ...

A Nottingham-based funeral directors says it has recorded an increase in individuals choosing to make the sea their final resting place. A.W. Lymn, which has 28 funeral homes across the East ...

“The body had been embalmed and appeared consistent with a burial at sea,” the office said. Prosecutors said they are unlikely to identify the woman due to its state of decomposition and that ...

A body hauled in by the nets of a fishing boat off the coast of Massachusetts last week was likely a burial at sea and not criminal, according to the Suffolk County district attorney's office.

A human body caught in fishing nets 40 miles off the Massachusetts coast last week had been embalmed and appeared consistent with a burial at sea, authorities said Monday. The state’s Office of ...

“The body had been embalmed and appeared consistent with a burial at sea,” the office said. Prosecutors said they are unlikely to identify the woman due to its state of decomposition and that ...