For the past several years, photographer Klaus Bo has documented how different cultures deal with death in his ongoing Dead and Alive Project. His aim is to document at least 15 distinct death rituals ...

Have you ever felt like you’re spending your life trying to live up to others’ expectations? Well, you might want to give the funeral theory a read. The “funeral theory” has been trending across ...

Friends, family and a few former presidents gathered in Washington, D.C., Thursday for former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral. Cheney's funeral service was held at the Washington National ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When former Vice President Dick Cheney‘s funeral is held Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral in the nation’s capital, he will join a bipartisan but exclusive list of ...

Sixteen NSW residents have received state funerals or memorials in the past six years, an increasingly frequent honour estimated to cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. On Wednesday ...

Spring in the Swartland and the fields are alive with colour. From the West Coast National Park to the roadsides as you head north, there’s a technicolour dreamcoat of daisies and bulbs erupting into ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Planning a funeral can be difficult enough emotionally without factoring in financial matters. "This is one of the most important parts of estate planning that many people may not think much about, as ...

Swartland, a South African manufacturer of windows, doors, and timber products, could be forced to close its export business after 35 years of operation due to incoming US tariffs. Founded in 1951 in ...

The families of four young Walkerton softball players, and their coach, killed in a tragic car crash near London last Friday, have released funeral details for their five loved ones. The family of ...

As cremation rates rise and consumer preferences shift, funeral homes are innovating in surprisingly unconventional ways so they don’t die out. Defying convention, Hamilton’s Funeral Home in Des ...

Chenin blanc is the flagship white grape variety of South Africa (covered here last week. Pinotage is probably the red equivalent, but it isn’t nearly as popular, covering just 6 per cent of the ...