Six years ago, Kelly Avery and Kristin Harper, sisters from Birmingham, Ala., gathered their families by the sky-blue ocean waters of Destin, Fla., to memorialize their mother, Barbara Harper. They ...

While you've probably heard of an obituary, you might not have ever heard of a funeral resolution. Churches have been drafting these formal statements for decades. Tasked with writing a one, but not ...

HOUSTON – It’s something every person will probably have to deal with at some point. We are talking about paying funeral costs for your loved one or planning ahead for yourself. Amy Davis talks with ...

Arranging your end-of-life wishes in advance is a gift for loved ones. Here's how to make sure you don't pay for what you don ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. For the funeral industry, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant ...

Grieving for a loved one is acutely difficult. The last thing anyone wants to do just after the loss is sit across from a salesperson in a high-pressure, time-sensitive situation making important and ...

The median cost of a traditional funeral with burial and viewing is about $8,300, according to a 2023 report from the National Funeral Directors Association, the most recent data available. Cremation ...

A PLAN has been agreed for how volunteer mourners will be organised to attend funerals where it’s feared nobody else will ...

Former VP Dick Cheney died Nov. 3 of complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Here's what we know so far ...