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 ...

Death can come at any time, in any place. Whenever, and wherever, it occurs, there’s an excellent chance the dead person’s loved ones will mark the passing with food. Lots of food. “You can ask any ...

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 ...

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 ...

History is usually about dead people. But museums and textbooks tend to focus on what those people did while they were alive. Aiming to fix that, a mobile exhibit that rolls into Eagan on Friday looks ...

If the funeral lunch is at Przybylo’s White Eagle in Niles, you can count on having pierogies, but when the dearly departed were laid out in the parlor, there wasn’t enough time to prepare the ...

When the Museum of Funeral Customs folded, most of its memorabilia ended up at a local museum in Carthage, Illinois, between Keokuk and Macomb in western Illinois. From this description published in ...