Funeral directors say they are seeing more situations where General Assistance is needed to pay for a burial or cremation, but the amount paid by the program doesn't completely cover expenses.

That doesn't include extra expenses, like visiting hours and funeral services, obituaries and urns. Under General ... ability to pay for even the most basic cremation or burial.

Now, the child’s parents — who didn’t find out until last year after they tried exhuming her for cremation — are ... laws and regulations as well as basic human dignity and decency ...

The former GP was considered by his neighbours to be a bit of a recluse, although he would sometimes venture out of his living space to mix with others if he felt sociable.

Peter Bon had charm, a doctorate on his CV and experience of disasters, yet one slip began to unravel an extraordinary ...

“The Hallfords would allegedly grind up concrete, put that in an urn or a bag, and give that to the families instead of the cremation of their loved ones," Tyler says of what investigators learne ...

A New Orleans man stumbles upon a puzzling find on Franklin Avenue Tuesday afternoon. After finding an urn while pumping gas, William Thomas is looking to reunite the urn to the family it belongs to.

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