Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Dracula’s resting place to polished funeral-home displays, the vessels we associate with death have evolved, and so has the language. Take the words coffin and casket, for example.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A woman is suing a funeral home after she said someone else was in her grandmother’s casket at her funeral. Marva Lynch handled the final arrangements for her grandmother, Lucy Johnson, in July 2023, our sister station at WSB-TV ...

The funeral’s pamphlet contained tributes to each of the children, who ranged in age from 3 to 11. Some of them had affectionate nicknames: 3-year-old Jayla Elkins was “Jaybae;” Kayla Pugh, 6, was called “K-Mae,” and 10-year-old Mar’Kaydon Pugh was “K-Bug.”