Funerals

China bans 'bone ash apartments' where mourners are storing cremated remains instead of cemeteries.

Human composting is when a body placed in a sealed vessel containing organic matter turns into soil.

Services are postponed following the blaze which damaged part of Thorncliffe Crematorium.

A crematorium rule change upsets families who can't have their ashes buried in future with loved ones.

People affected by the change at Margam Crematorium have described the situation as "devastating".

Gosport funeral directors Elkin and Bell were jailed last month for leaving bodies unrefrigerated.

The process - called alkaline hydrolysis - will offer families a third option instead of burial or traditional cremation.