Flutter will use music to help teens deal with grief.
Flutter is a new app that is being designed to give adolescents a tool to help overcome grief over losing a loved one.
Category: Death in Popular Culture
The funeral selfie is back in the news.
Last August we explored the topic of the funeral selfie in our article, Should you snap that funeral selfie? Now MTV News is looking at the topic.
Was a voodoo-practicing former slave the second oldest woman ever to live on earth?
The evidence is a collection of photographs from the Cammie G. Henry Research Center, at Northwestern State University, in Natchitoches, Louisiana. These images date back ...
Japan’s funeral industry booms with high-tech solutions for ageing population
A recent story published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation highlights the boom in Japan's high tech funeral industry. Almost all Japanese people get cremated and have ...
PBS NewsHour airs documentary which explores Belgium’s euthanasia law.
PBS NewsHour recently published a feature which explores Belgium's liberal euthanasia law. The NewsHour segment is available on their website.
Friends Decorate Slain Charlie Hedbo Cartoonist’s Coffin for Funeral
On January 15th one of the cartoonists slain in the Charlie Hedbo attack was laid to rest outside Paris. Bernard Verlhac, who drew under the name 'Tignous', ...
How Millennials Mourn
After losing her mother to cancer, 27 year old Emily Kaiser struggled to find peace with her grief. In this moving piece that was published ...
So long Will Gardner and other 2014 TV character deaths.
2014 saw many fan favorites bite the dust. Some of these TV character deaths were not surprising since series such as "Boardwalk Empire", "True Blood", and "Sons of Anarchy", famous ...
Casey Kasem finally laid to rest.
It has been confirmed that the remains of legedary disc jockey and radio host Casey Kasem have been laid to rest in Norway.
A Bizarre Spate of Christmas Shopping Deaths, from Xuzhou to London to Omaha
Christmas shopping deaths seem to fall into two categories: Those people so enthusiastic about Christmas shopping that they cause the death of themselves or others ...
The rise of the live stream funeral broadcast.
In 2011 The New York Times published an article that discussed the growing trend toward remotely broadcast live stream funeral services (read the full ...
Saying goodbye to those we lost: 2014 celebrity deaths.
During 2014 we said goodbye to many celebrities and artists who made us laugh, cry, and think differently about our lives. We also saw the ...
Strange Deaths 2014: The Year of Death by Selfie
>>Strange Deaths 2015: Another big year for selfie deaths. This year’s edition of strange deaths reveals a disturbing trend—death by selfie. We found 10 confirmed instances ...
Personalization in funerals takes off.
According to the National Funeral Director's Association, it's the baby boomers who are driving the current trend toward more personal funerals. "Baby boomers see funerals ...
