When a company asks permission to pulverize a corpse—to freeze a body solid, then shake it till it shatters—how, exactly, should the government respond? Last September, Derek Schmidt, the attorney ...

A CONTROVERSIAL burial method that uses liquid nitrogen to freeze and disintegrate a dead body is being heralded as the future of cremation by its creator. Dubbed “promession”, the process takes place ...

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A technique for disposing of bodies by first freeze-drying them before shattering them into dust is to receive ministerial approval as a way of relieving pressure on Scotland's overcrowded cemeteries.