It contains the relics of deaths past — a replica of Abraham Lincoln’s casket, Civil War-era embalming tools and intricately designed mourning jewelry made from deceased loved ones’ hair. Despite the ...

In the old days, Egyptians would bury a pharaoh and throw in a slave or a wife or two to keep him company in the afterlife. Romans would carry torches in a funeral procession. Colonials would head to ...

In Islam, the deceased are to be buried within 24 hours. This was highlighted in media reports of the death of Osama binLaden. And controversy arose over bin Laden’s burial at sea. Each major religion ...

COVID-19 has disrupted everyday life, changing how people socialize, shop, work -- and worship. Health laws and pandemic restrictions can make it challenging to honor a particular religion’s death ...

PHOENIX - Coronavirus is changing the funeral business, with mourners having to adjust the way they say goodbye to loved ones. In the Valley, one funeral home is now reducing the numbers of guests ...

On a recent gray day, the earth next to the Islamic Garden at National Memorial Park near Falls Church was upturned for expansion. There, deceased Muslims are often propped on one shoulder inside ...

Most of what happened around the death and subsequent funeral services for Pope Francis had a traditional ring to them. Obviously, when the pope dies in Rome, tradition has much to say about how ...

At the post office, a little bunch of us was sitting in the shade, talking about one thing and another, when somebody said he'd been patching a roof in this heat and it was "about as much fun as ...

The Queen’s funeral will be incomparable in scale and grandeur as the nation gathers to say its solemn final farewell to its longest reigning monarch. Through the centuries, customs and rituals have ...