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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing numbers of Vietnam veterans are being laid to rest in recent years, and in many cases their families are attending ...

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 ...

Planning a funeral is never easy, especially when emotions are heavy and time feels rushed. In these moments, families want to do more than arrange a service, they want to honor a life with care, ...

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 ...

The pandemic accelerated shifts in death care, pushing funeral homes to adopt technology and livestream services as families faced surges in loss and sought safer, more flexible mourning options.

New Orleans conducted a deeply meaningful ceremony combining multifaith memorial services with traditional jazz funeral celebrations to honor 19 African American individuals whose remains were finally ...

To tell a story of New Orleans requires a certain patience and reserve. A willingness to draw connections that are hardly possible for any other city in America, yet undeniable in the Big Easy. Most ...

It’s hard to miss the coffin shaped like an old Nokia brick phone at the entrance of the sunlit workshop on the outskirts of Accra. Here, on a busy road next to Ghana’s Atlantic coastline, Eric Kpakpo ...