Roger Ebert was explicit about his lack of religious commitment: "No, I am not a Buddhist. I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers."
I don't think you can describe a person from any one story. But there is one story that I think it's important to relate, one last story about growing up as kids, because ultimately it's a portrait of who John always was.
Those of you privileged to love and be loved by an innocent, playful, soulful animal, I know you hear me through my torrent of tears.
There is a lot of talk about gays and lesbians these days. But in every thing we say and do, particularly for Christians, love must come first. And not the love that condemns first, or judges first, or labels first. But the love that loves first. Because God is love.
-- People around the country and world paused for a moment Friday morning to memorialize the 26 victims of the massacre a week ago at an elementary s...
A grieving community will lay the final victims of the Sandy Hook shooting to rest this weekend. Saturday funerals are scheduled for three students...
For trying to shield her student as both died in the gunfire, Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Anne Marie Murphy earned perhaps the highest praise...
One week after the tragedy that left 28 people dead, Newtown continues its public grieving. Friday marks the funerals of students Olivia Engel, Dyl...
The grief-stricken community of Newtown continues its public mourning on Thursday with funerals for victims from Friday's elementary school massacre. ...
The nation has no idea yet what a great leader and cornerstone of our democracy we have lost this week. Because it was also his style to not call too much attention to himself, he tended to flow under the radar of D.C. politics. Rest in peace Senator.
Newtown continues to mourn as funerals, visiting hours and wakes continue today for the victims of Friday's tragedy. On Wednesday, funerals are sch...
The funeral for 6-year-old Sandy Hook shooting victim Jack Pinto was held on Monday in Newtown, Conn. Following the service, USA Today reporter Yamich...
Newtown will say goodbye to two more children today, as James Mattioli and Jessica Rekos are laid to rest. The funerals for the 6-year-old boy and ...
-- The mother and uncle of 6-year-old Noah Pozner delivered messages at his funeral reflecting on the life of the little boy killed in Friday's schoo...
Monday marks the first two burials of the 20 young children massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week. Jack Pinto, 6, is remembered as a ...
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get eno...
Nearly 2.5 million Americans die every year. With an increasingly diverse nation of the religious and nonreligious, each death is observed differently, but each life is remembered and celebrated with words and stories. The Huffington Post is collecting eulogies for the dead.
We rarely get that kind of preview to hear another person's perception of us at the end of our lives. Hearing the engine turn off thousands of feet above ground served as Ric Elias's wake up call. What about us?
"Contemplating one's own death is a spiritual practice. It can certainly be the focal point of any meditation or journal writing. A Buddhist would say that we should examine it with every breath."
We of the Woodstock generation have long been interested in pushing the limits of self-expression, and our desire to noisily overturn convention is unlikely to stop just because we're facing the big chill.
Will you be ready when your time comes (to deliver a eulogy)? It helps if you don't think of eulogy as a performance art, but as a gift.
I fear that cultural patterns are creating pressures that are hard to resist, and in the last few years I have attended far too many funerals that have left me distressed and even indignant rather than consoled.
One of the thoughts at a funeral, at least for me, is always: What will people say about me at my funeral?
In all cultures, key milestones crystallize the nature of individual identity. This event, one that took place in twenty-first century Shanghai, city of new dreams and neon buzz, was no different.
There was something so chilling about mourning a man in the most public of ceremonies whose great tragedy was that he had never had a private life. Even in death, there wasn't any way for Michael Jackson to walk -- or be driven in a casket -- down the street unnoticed.
