Urns often come in the form of drab-looking vases that, for some people, are a painful reminder of a loved one's death. So an LA-based designer set out to provide a different option.

An urn that doubles as a planter: It’s the latest in L.A.’s death positivity movement Inspired by universal stories of loss, woodworker C.C. Boyce crafts custom-made wood urns for cremation ...

But some of them were buried outside what is now identified as the cemetery's boundaries.Cremation has been growing in use because it can be significantly cheaper than a burial plot and saves land.

After cremation, the ashes are either buried or placed in a small chamber, or niche, in a structure at a cemetery called a columbarium, which consists of columns of small vaults into which urns ...

The other day, in a woodworking studio above Santee Alley, a flea market in downtown Los Angeles, C. C. Boyce took a succulent from a row on her windowsill and placed it in a handmade wooden urn ...