The sluggish economy has affected every industry in America, even the funeral industry. According to an Associated Press report, cash-strapped families are choosing such low-cost alternatives to ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Don’t want a boring old funeral? You’re in luck: When it comes to disposing of your earthly remains, there are now more options than ever. After you die you could have the carbon ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Large, close gatherings with lots of touching and, typically, an inordinate number of older people – funerals could be described as potential COVID-19 incubators, and with ...

Whether we like it or not, death comes for us all. But the way we process death — and how the dead are preserved and cared for — has evolved. “We're finding new ways of adapting our rituals,” Lily ...

As a last statement, our funerals are remarkable as much for their uniformity as for their conclusion of highly personal lives. I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had ...

When Windsor resident Emma Schlotthauer died earlier this month, her family had no idea it would have to make a decision not to hold a funeral in the days to come. Schlotthauer’s husband, three ...

Death isn’t something people like to talk much about, which might explain the number of misunderstandings about funeral homes’ role in death care. While funeral homes might seem like joyless or morbid ...

The sluggish economy has affected every industry in America, even the funeral industry. According to an Associated Press report, cash-strapped families are choosing such low-cost alternatives to ...