A traditional priest and fisherman was buried inside a giant blue teapot in Ghana’s Central Region in 2009. - Regula Tschumi It was a funeral two years in the making. The deceased had laid in a morgue ...

Hathaway Home for Funerals said funeral trends are changing, with more people opting for non-traditional services. Here's how ...

KOCHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - The rising costs of funerals are becoming a significant concern for many families, with expenses doubling every decade. Peggy Wesley, funeral home manager at Good ...

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TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - Fed up with boring funerals that express nothing about the personality or the life of the deceased? Aging baby boomers are. Sign up here. Many are rejecting traditional ...

(AP) Nelson Mandela’s casket was draped in a lion skin, an ox was ritually slaughtered and a family elder kept talking to the body’s spirit: The state funeral for South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon ...

Frank McQuade grew up Catholic, became a priest and always envisioned a traditional send-off when he died — a funeral home wake, a funeral Mass at a church and a cemetery burial. But McQuade, 71, a ...

The funeral proceedings for fallen Virginia Beach Police Officers Cameron Girvin and Christopher Reese Saturday included a ceremonial flag folding, 21-gun salute, bagpipes and processional. After 27 ...

“We were just disposing of people. That’s what it felt like,” says undertaker Katey Houston. During the Covid-19 pandemic, over 1 million people died from January 2020 to October 2022 because of COVID ...

It was a funeral two years in the making. The deceased had laid in a morgue in Greater Accra, Ghana, biding his time in icy torpor as plans were made for his final journey. There was financing to be ...

(AP) An ox will be slaughtered, the deceased will be wrapped in a leopard skin and a family elder will keep talking to the body’s spirit: The state funeral for South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon ...