In Mississippi, for example, some 34% of people who died last year were cremated, compared to nearly 72% in Florida ... to preliminary data, the national cremation rate was about 61%.

SCOTTSMOOR — Cape Canaveral National Cemetery has officially become the ninth national cemetery in Florida and the 134th ... used for in-ground casket and cremation interments in January.

At the Florida National Cemetery, those goodbyes are sometimes ... Sabilona seals up the cremation remains into the columbariums. “Every single one of them need to be treated with respect ...

Florida National Cemetery Executive Director Kirk Leopard said the Bushnell facility has about 41,000 plots where cremated remains are interred. Leopard would not comment on the mistake that ...