From Egyptian mummification to Victorian mourning codes, these historic funeral traditions reveal how humans have always ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A traditional priest and fisherman was buried inside a giant blue teapot in Ghana’s Central Region in 2009. - Regula Tschumi It ...