An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link When Gregory Burrell's wife passed away almost two years ago, 600 people attended her funeral. Now, during a pandemic that continues to surge in ...

It was a funeral two years in the making. The deceased had laid in a morgue in Greater Accra, Ghana, biding his time in icy torpor as plans were made for his final journey. There was financing to be ...

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When people lose a loved one — especially unexpectedly — environmental consciousness may be the last thing on their minds. But modern funeral practices are wreaking havoc on the environment. Bodies ...

There are several Ojibwe traditions I was taught concerning funerals and death. For instance, when I was growing up and somebody died, my mother would crinkle up a little strip of birch bark like an ...

KENOSHA — Casey Family Options Funerals and Cremations, 3016 75th St. is a funeral home unlike any other in southeastern Wisconsin. “It’s all about family,” said Steve Casey, owner of Casey Family ...

TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - Fed up with boring funerals that express nothing about the personality or the life of the deceased? Aging baby boomers are. Sign up here. Many are rejecting traditional ...

When Cindy Colorado’s mother-in-law died from COVID-19 on Dec. 1 – becoming one of more than 1,300 El Pasoans who have succumbed to the virus in this border town – the family hoped to give her a ...

SunLife - which has tracked the cost of funerals for 22 years - said that even a simple attended funeral now costs £3,828 on ...