Your death is going to set in motion several actions involving your body and burial. Someone must first make a legal ...

It’s that time of year again–time for Emma Crawford and her pallbearers to don their funniest, spookiest, cleverest costumes ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his successor begins. They involve the certification of ...

The death of Pope Francis now sets off a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals. Francis has said he wants to be buried not in St. Peter’s Basilica or its grottoes, where most popes are ...

Losing a loved one who served in the military comes with emotional and financial challenges, and the Department of Veterans ...

A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants.

GRAND MARAIS (AP) -- The build-your-own-coffin class starts with instructor Mark Hansen describing the first one he built. It was for Helmer Aakvik, a Lake Superior fisherman from Hovland, Minn. Back ...