Funerals are sad occasions, a time to mourn the passing of a loved one and celebrate their life. Grief is the primary emotion, yet amidst the tears and goodbyes, something unexpected can sometimes ...

FUNERAL HOMES AND FUNERAL PRACTICES. Pre-canal era. In late May of 1797, David Eldridge, a drover sent out on the Connecticut Land Co.'s second survey, drowned while trying to cross the Grand River.

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Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn offers more than burials, it's one of many final resting places nationwide serving as social and educational spaces as our culture begins to stop decrying death and ...

MESA, Ariz. - With life also comes death, and oftentimes, it is common for some sort of a funeral (or a celebration of life) to be held for the person who has passed on. One celebration of life in ...

Jimmy Carter's memorial journey will end at his house in the tiny town of Plains, Georgia, where he grew up on a peanut farm. That is where his wife, Rosalynn, was laid to rest last year in a burial ...

As climate change reshapes the planet, new rituals help people process ecological grief. Learn more about glacier funerals.

NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBSNewYork) --As the nation and the world paused to remember the victims of last week's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, three more students and two more adults were laid to ...

Death is seen as impure and conflicting with the essential purity of Shinto shrines. For the same reason, cemeteries are not built near Shinto shrines. The result of this is that most Japanese have ...