The country’s first water crematorium which opened in Christchurch in early June, is proving a popular option for Kiwis.

A funeral director explains how the bodies of the deceased are prepared for burial or cremation in the United States.

His work begins when someone dies. The dead is brought to him and laid on a steel table in a fluorescent-lit, ...

The groundskeepers at Chicago’s largest and oldest cemetery make sure everybody—and every body—is treated with care.

Policies that dictate what happens after a death behind bars often add new layers of pain — and financial and logistical ...

Maria Florinda Rios Perez de Velasquez was 32, and had gone to clean a home with her husband in Whitestown, Ind.

A Colorado funeral home owner has taken a plea deal after stashing nearly 190 decaying bodies in a bug-infested building. On ...

Bianca Rudolph’s tragic death was aired on the program, 48 Hours. This coverage shed new light on the facts of the case.

Catholic funerals express the Christian hope in eternal life and the resurrection of the body on the last day. Every component of Catholic funeral rites should express these fundamental ...

The history of how the cemetery came to represent many forms — religious, civic, military, private — but lost its Catholic heart.

The body of the renowned saint and religious guru Ramanujacharya is still preserved in the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in ...