This camp, light and touching documentary meets the founder of Butterflies Rising Funeral Care – a glamorous funeral director who talks to the bodies and pays tribute to her mum by drinking Strongbow ...

Have you ever felt like you’re spending your life trying to live up to others’ expectations? Well, you might want to give the funeral theory a read. The “funeral theory” has been trending across ...

Diamonds made from ashes, burial forests, restoring memorials — the ways we say goodbye are growing more diverse. More people want funerals that respect nature, and the trend carries symbolic weight.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When former Vice President Dick Cheney‘s funeral is held Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral in the nation’s capital, he will join a bipartisan but exclusive list of ...

Sixteen NSW residents have received state funerals or memorials in the past six years, an increasingly frequent honour estimated to cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. On Wednesday ...

Eddie Murphy is pulling back the curtain on the darker side of Hollywood. In Netflix's documentary, "Being Eddie," the actor and comedian, 64, opened up about his decision to financially cover the ...

Tackling deprivation among older people in England is crucial to curbing an "unsustainable" increase in taxpayer-funded funerals, according to new research. The study, by the ESRC Centre for ...

Green funerals are poised to grow quickly in the coming decades. A number of death care firms are ready for the secular trend. The shift to eco-friendly funerals won’t happen overnight. With a small ...

Namibia reportedly spent 30m Namibian dollars ($1.7m; £1.25m) on transport costs during founding President Sam Nujoma's funeral The Namibian government has announced a temporary ban on state funerals ...

It was a funeral two years in the making. The deceased had laid in a morgue in Greater Accra, Ghana, biding his time in icy torpor as plans were made for his final journey. There was financing to be ...

Most modern-day Japanese pay scant attention to religion in daily life, but things are different when it comes to funerals. These are officiated according to Buddhist rites nearly 90% of the time, and ...