Prices for bio-cremation machines range from $200,000 to $400,000 each, and only a few companies make them. Sales to just a one-tenth of the nation’s 20,000 funeral homes and crematoria would ...

In layman’s terms: When you’re pulled out of the machine post-cremation, some of the machine comes with you—and some of your bones stay behind.

TWIN FALLS • Heidi Heil’s garage contains a refrigerator for storing human remains, stacks of cardboard caskets and a $70,000 cremation machine.

Supplied by Newlife Techwin Inc., the diesel-fueled crematory machine can finish the cremation process within 45 minutes to an hour, and can accommodate about 9 cases within a 12-hour operation.

The 'Aqualyser' offers eco-friendly water cremation as an alternative to flames. However, the use of such a machine on human bodies has not been authorized in B.C.

What can you tell us about cremation? Cremation over the past 20 years has really become the American way of death. More specifically where we're headed is direct cremation, which is just the body ...

The equipment workers need to wear around the 1,650 degree crematories is tucked away for no one to see. So is the part of the machine where flames are visible. Brown said it’s all done with the ...

It’s also expected to be cheaper, and not just for grieving families. Whereas a flame crematory could cost funeral services as much as US$500,000, the Aqualyser is expected to cost less than ...