For the first time in history, the actual presence of the dead at their own funerals has become optional, even undesirable, lest the body break the il...
AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
MILWAUKEE — The world's largest retailer wants to keep its customers even after they die. Wal-Mart has started selling caskets on its Web site ...
Lee Lipsenthal, M.D. | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
The first emotion that came to me, the day of my diagnosis, was a surprising sense of freedom.
Posted 10.02.2009 | Technology
See photos below. News has just surfaced of what might only be described as a "geek funeral." A Slashdot reader laid to rest his brother's remains...
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 11.26.2009 | Living
Whenever I've thought about American writer James Baldwin's take on life, I've always - for varied reasons - thought about my mother and the joy and sorrow that defined her life.
intent.com | Dr. Roberta Temes | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
It is an honor to commemorate the life of a person who has recently died. Are you preparing a eulogy? Here's some help from Dr. Roberta Temes, who s...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Calling for some sort of decorous avoidance of politics during politicians' funerals is downright ridiculous. It'd be like eulogizing Charles Lindbergh and not mentioning airplanes.
Vicki Iovine | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
The reality is, losing a beloved is life-altering. We recover, but we are never the same. Everyone, if they we lucky, experiences grief and needs the protection and gentleness of those around us.
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
HYANNIS, Mass. (Associated Press) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the presidential sister who founded the Special Olympics, was celebrated Friday at a funer...
Lissa Coffey | Posted 08.07.2009 | Living
I heard on the radio an official confirmation that Michael had passed away. My heart dropped. What is it about celebrities that gets us so engrossed in their lives and deaths?
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
There was my father on a huge screen next to the platform in the center of the synagogue. He said, "I always wanted to attend my own funeral. Well...I'm here!"
AP | Posted 05.10.2009 | Home
LOS ANGELES — Two women have been charged with staging sham funerals to collect life insurance payments and other money totaling an estimated $1 mil...
Sen. Frank Lautenberg | Posted 08.09.2008 | Home
We have had a long tradition of coming together as a nation to memorialize our fallen heroes--the men and women whose lives were lost on the battlefie...
AP | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
ERIE, Pa. — A woman charged in the drunken-driving death of her son went to a bar after his funeral instead of reporting back to jail, state pol...
nytimes.com | THOMAS G. LONG | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living