Funerals

Twelve years ago, I strode by Clark Glacier on the flanks of South Sister, the tallest of a cluster of three…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned morticians that large funerals should be livestreamed…

A good rule of thumb if you’re going to threaten to publish nude photos of the richest man on the planet unless he…

Death becomes us all, yet most of us have little idea what happens to our bodies before and after a funeral. It…

Things we did not know existed until today: Barbie's Dream Hearse, which is perfect to ferry Barbie from her Dream…

In European cultures, we cremate our dead or bury them in a simple pine box. But coffins are a lot fancier in Ghana,…

Here's a look at the delicate process of preparing a dead body for a funeral. Warning: Watching this video will…

Western burial customs are expensive, idiotic and terrible for the environment. Cremation is also lousy for the…

The way we grieve, commemorate, and dispose of our dead varies greatly from culture to culture, but some traditions…

Some Taoist and Buddhist funerary traditions involve the bereaved burning facsimiles of household items so the dead…

The Co-operative Funeralcare funeral home in Consett, County Durham, England has been the subject of unwanted public…

Like life insurance, most people aren't keen to talk about what should happen to their digital selves after they…

An ancient Viking tradition was to burn their dead on pyre out of respect. The modern day equivalent must be this…

Jody Lynn Bennett, 37, of Mentcle, Pa. was apparently in need of a Game Boy on Wednesday. So he popped by the local…

The Ghanaian carpenter Paa Joe is a master coffin carver. Which sounds sort of boring, until you see his coffins,…

Just because you've got a mouthful of formaldehyde (instead of Jägermeister) doesn't mean you have to give up your…

There goes that last frontier of decency. Or did it? I could almost buy into this being at worst an unfortunate…

Edgar Allan Poe's original funeral was a disaster — it was never announced publicly, almost nobody attended, and a…

We have seen evidence of this in the past, but it seems that burying loved ones with cellphones and other gadgets is…

Old man Banjeglav was so god-awful addicted to his cellphone and text messaging that he told his son to bury him…