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Woodworking With a Purpose

This video is not about sadness but a celebration of the joy our pets bring to our lives. We explore the woodworking process, from selecting the right wood to designing unique urns that hold both ...
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Three local funeral homes offering new service that turns human ashes into stones

Three St. Clair County funeral homes are offering a new way to remember loved ones who have died. Pollock Randall Funeral Home, Marysville Funeral Home and Karrer-Simpson Funeral Home have partnered ...
Los Angeles Times

Lost in a sea of ash: When wildfire destroys a home — and a loved one’s urn — the search begins

Specially trained dogs help find the ashes of people who had been cremated. A pair of archaeologists have worked 19 burn sites in recent years and recovered cremains from more than 300 destroyed homes ...
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Indigenous funeral urns discovered on human-made islands in Amazon rainforest

Seven giant funeral urns dating to pre-Columbian times have been found deep in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. A fisher who works in this little-known waterlogged area of the middle Solimões region, ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Urns Containing Ashes–symbolic Remnants of Jews Slain by Nazis–buried in Yad Vashem

Two urns containing human ashes, the symbolic remnants of the 86,000 Jews of Vilna and thousands of other Jews from Latvia who were slain by the Nazis during World War II, were laid to rest yesterday ...