Secular Funerals and Ritual — Vox Takes a Look
Funerals can be hard--not just attending them or paying for them, but planning them. There are lots of details and these days, anything goes. If ...
Category: In the News
Heavy.com Explores Jewish Funeral Customs
In the wake of the horrific murder of eleven kind souls at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hills neighborhood of Pittsburgh, we pause ...
Take in a Baseball Game and Win a Funeral
If you are at HarbourCats baseball stadium in Victoria, BC tonight when the hometown team meets the Corvallis Knights you may just win a pretty ...
Would you like to play a game? A Look at “A Mortician’s Tale”
We're used to seeing and hearing about death in video games. The way it usually works is whoever is dead is killed in some kind ...
Baylor Adds Course in Death and Dying.
Students at Baylor University in Waco, Texas can now take a course that explores the topic of death and dying. The for-credit class is offered ...
Would you try virtual reality death?
A team of scientists in Barcelona is using virtual reality to give people the experience of death. The experiment is designed to give participants an ...
Capture Memorial Day Photo Contest Winner Announced
A photo of a service person participating in the annual Flags-In ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery was chosen as the Grand Prize Winner of the ...
The National Geographic Article On Death Everyone Can’t Stop Talking About (It’s Weirder Than You Think!)
A woman pulls back a golden curtain and slips inside a room to speak to her husband, “Papa, Papa.”
Weekly News: Funeral Customs and Holding Your Funeral Before You Die
Funeral customs and personalization top this week's news, along with a new trend that features holding your funeral before you die.
Weekly News: Corpses look alive at their own funerals.
With funeral personalization is on the rise with more corpses look alive at their own funerals. Also in the news: Hotwire and death ads, the ...
Weekly News: Nancy Reagan’s funeral details, Pat Conroy laid to rest.
First lady Nancy Reagan's funeral details released and Pat Conroy laid to rest.
Weekly News 2/22/2016: Home funerals in the news.
The increasing interest in home funerals tops this week's news. We learned about Diane Rehm's thoughts on life and death, how to think outside the ...
Weekly News 2/15/2016: Home funerals and how we say goodbye
Home funerals, saying goodbye, and learning more about how we handle grief are at the top of this week's news. We also learned more about ...
Weekly News 2/8/2016: How we grieve and more.
How we grieve, what our last moments look like, and the history of mourning all made it to this week's news. In the odd department, ...
Weekly News: Green burials, mushroom suits, and special people in the industry.
Green burials and the environment dominated this week's news--from overall considerations in how in ground burial impacts the environment to a burial suit that sprouts ...
