One heartbreaking reality of COVID-imposed social distancing includes funerals via Zoom. First, you are not mourning alone. Physical distance does not necessarily equate to emotional distance. I have ...

Holding a funeral or memorial on a videoconferencing platform like Zoom offers several advantages: It’s easy for distant guests to attend, and you can record it. By Steven J. Birenbaum When my 80-year ...

Amid the quarantinis, the kids crawling over laptops, and the dog walks, we are losing sight of a picture we don’t want to see. People are still dying. Death is scary. And it happens to other people.

An 18-month investigation led police to charge a North Jersey teen accused of interrupting a Zoom virtual memorial service for a South Brunswick High School student who died in a 2021 car crash and ...

A homegoing celebration for a family in Fayetteville turned into a nightmare when someone hacked the Zoom feed of the funeral service and replaced it with inappropriate images. Family and friends had ...

The unexpected death of a friend and colleague to COVID-19 in January 2021 led me to start researching how American death rituals were transforming during the pandemic. My friend was Hindu, and while ...

Jim Cohen is a fourth-generation funeral director. His family’s Feldman Mortuary has been at the corner of East 17th Avenue and York Street in Denver since 1939, specializing in services that adhere ...

I waited outside the main office building of Beth Moses Cemetery in Long Island. It was a bright, cold day. I’d been there many times before. Normally the spot is a swirl of activity, with cars ...

A homegoing celebration for a family in Fayetteville turned into a nightmare when someone hacked the Zoom feed of the funeral service and replaced it with inappropriate images. A homegoing celebration ...

An 18-month investigation led police to charge a North Jersey teen accused of interrupting a Zoom virtual memorial service for a South Brunswick High School student who died in a 2021 car crash and ...