An American company called Cremation Solutions is offering commemorative urns shaped like the severed heads of deceased loved ones. The Vemont-based company, which specialises in memorial events and ...

They may be cast in steel, assembled out of driftwood, machined on industrial lathes or hand-carved out of salt, but ultimately all of these urns have two common purposes: to contain and to heal.

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Cremation urns usually only hold the ashes of a spouse. With his new work 21 Grams, Dutch designer Mark Sturkenboom reimagines the urn as an interactive memory box for widows. It doesn’t just hold the ...