Southerners quickly switch into hosting gear at the first sign of a wedding or a baby shower, deploying casseroles, strategizing seating charts, and polishing silverware. Funerals are no exception. In ...

Funeral traditions vary all across the world. Some are ancient religious practices, while others are new ideas made possible because of technological advancements over the past 50 years. One thing all ...

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The coronavirus pandemic is changing ways of death as well as ways of life in the Balkans, forcing relatives and loved-ones to forgo many of the comforting ceremonies and traditions associated with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A traditional priest and fisherman was buried inside a giant blue teapot in Ghana’s Central Region in 2009. - Regula Tschumi It ...

Washington - Former President Ronald Reagan will be mourned and buried this week according to the code of the official state funeral, a strict set of rituals and traditions tempered by Reagan's own ...

Funeral traditions vary by faith, in such areas as preparing the body, how the beloved is remembered, the structure of ceremonies, and the final resting place for the body. Here are brief overviews of ...

Billy Vallie Jr. couldn’t imagine saying his final goodbye to his beloved grandmother with the limitations brought on by social distancing guidelines out of concerns for limiting the spread of the ...

The funeral for Pope Francis will include many long-held traditions, but will also eschew some of the more intricate customs after the pope amended the Catholic Church's papal funeral rights. Francis ...

Sir: A recent Facebook post by a Danish woman, Anja Ringgren Loven, was a brutal reminder of the debauched mourning traditions in some parts of Nigeria. In the post, Anja noted how she and her team ...