Funeral Convergence

08/08/2025

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/02/rhode-island-house-passes-bill-to-allow-human-composting-water-cremation/83944828007/

Rhode Island's House passed a bill to allow human composting for the second year in a row and "water cremation" for the first time.

08/04/2025

https://www.wcax.com/2025/05/28/vt-funeral-home-first-state-use-water-cremation/

Vermont offers a variety of burial methods and alternatives, now including a greener way to honor your loved ones.

08/03/2025

https://www.newsnationnow.com/science/human-composting-green-burial-georgia/

A dozen states allow the practice, and Georgia is the latest to join their ranks

08/01/2025

https://nj1015.com/human-composting-new-jersey-law/

07/31/2025

https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2025/04/10/citycounty-seek-one-year-fix-to-rose-hill-cemetery-lawn-care-needs/82999136007/

Columbia and Maury County leaders are considering funding $112,000 to assist Rose Hill and Rosemount Cemeteries' lawn care needs for one year.

07/29/2025

https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2025/02/12/lincolnton-residents-want-damaged-graves-fixed-or-cemetery-shutdown/

Paying customers of a Lincolnton cemetery are outraged with how their buried loved ones are being treated. Residents have called out Forest Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum on Highway-150 for improperly kept graves.

07/28/2025

https://www.kget.com/video/greenlawns-brown-lawn-cemeterys-well-problem-concerns-many/10819566/

Greenlawn's brown lawn: Cemetery's well problem concerns many

07/27/2025

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wjbf.com/news/augustas-cedar-grove-cemetery-seeks-aid-post-hurricane-helene/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoTNjEwNjc4MDQ5NDY5NjU5MTk4NzIaOThhMGUxOGZjNTI5MjkzYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw0ZD3lng96Pzx8iL-UUdtRE

AUGUSTA, Ga (WJBF)- The CSRA is still seeing the impacts of Hurricane Helene more than 9 months later. Historic Cedar Grove Cemetery started around 1818 as a burial site for slaves. Over the years …

07/26/2025

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/outreach/on-the-homefront/virtual-gala-to-repair-miramar-national-cemetery-flagpoles/509-495c7ba5-6a57-4781-966b-32bc739c3c3e&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoTNjEwNjc4MDQ5NDY5NjU5MTk4NzIaOThhMGUxOGZjNTI5MjkzYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw3HFQXLaot-98XfnlZXj92P

American flags have flown continuously over Miramar National Cemetery's Avenue of Flags since 2012, but the flagpoles' internal mechanisms now need replacement.

07/25/2025

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://krcrtv.com/news/local/man-arrested-for-suspected-arson-in-cemetery-fire-in-oroville&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjEwNjc4MDQ5NDY5NjU5MTk4NzIaOThhMGUxOGZjNTI5MjkzYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw1lWJPoJ9z_JHQbOWp9MNnZ

A man has been arrested in connection with the Cemetery Fire that burned 9.5 acres near Thompson Flat Cemetery Road and Cherokee Road in Oroville this week.Cal

07/25/2025

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/human-composting-dead-available-michigan-long-its-not-done-here

Residents must transport their departed loved ones out of state to undergo the 'natural organic reduction process,' which transforms the human body into soil. Only 12 states allow the practice.

07/24/2025

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/07/09/lawsuit-longueuil-funeral-home-cremating-mother-body/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoUMTYwNzk0NDg5NDM5MTgzMjU1MjkyGmI2ZTNlYzY3MGE1ZWM1OTQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1f-o9WojZtKkC9AWwevsh9

Quebecer Stéphane Thalès is taking legal action against a funeral company, alleging his mother Édith Jean-Philippe was cremated without his consent. Thalès has filed a civil lawsuit against Service Corporation International, the parent company of funeral home La Maison Darche, in Longueuil. Thal...