Once there was a company called AffinityLifeStyles.com. It sold Alkaline Waters – and got into “hot” water. It’s now bankrupt ...

Indiana’s House of Representatives on Thursday approved a water-based cremation alternative despite religious pushback.

alkaline chemicals, heat and sometimes pressure and agitation, to accelerate natural decomposition, leaving bone fragments and a neutral liquid called effluent. “The decomposition that occurs in ...

alkaline chemicals and heat to decompose corpses into bone fragments — by adding it to Indiana’s legal definition of cremation. Rep. Mark Genda, R-Frankfort. (Courtesy Indiana House ...

Members of Indiana’s House of Representatives approved the measure on a 70-17 vote—a far cry from its defeat on a 34-59 vote a decade ago.