Look inside Germany’s underground war against mandatory burial.

The private crematory handled the bodies of thousands of the district’s most vulnerable. Its owners now face eight criminal charges for their practices, underscoring the steep shortfalls of public disposition in America.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s famed center for studying how humans decompose will work 90 cases per year in new 2,725-square-foot facility.

Inside a Colorado town where volunteers burn the dead in open-air pyres, a rare look at a ritual that stands apart from America's $20 billion death industry.