In Islam, the deceased are to be buried within 24 hours. This was highlighted in media reports of the death of Osama binLaden. And controversy arose over bin Laden’s burial at sea. Each major religion ...

In the old days, Egyptians would bury a pharaoh and throw in a slave or a wife or two to keep him company in the afterlife. Romans would carry torches in a funeral procession. Colonials would head to ...

It contains the relics of deaths past — a replica of Abraham Lincoln’s casket, Civil War-era embalming tools and intricately designed mourning jewelry made from deceased loved ones’ hair. Despite the ...

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum announced last week that it has created a new exhibit displayed in President Wilson’s Birthplace, a Presbyterian Manse, illustrating 19th century ...

The Queen’s funeral will be incomparable in scale and grandeur as the nation gathers to say its solemn final farewell to its longest reigning monarch. Through the centuries, customs and rituals have ...

At the post office, a little bunch of us was sitting in the shade, talking about one thing and another, when somebody said he'd been patching a roof in this heat and it was "about as much fun as ...

My husband Walt has told me that his grandmother was one of those women in her rural community who prepared the deceased for wakes and burial. She helped bathe and dress the body, laid out on the ...

Most of what happened around the death and subsequent funeral services for Pope Francis had a traditional ring to them. Obviously, when the pope dies in Rome, tradition has much to say about how ...

History is usually about dead people. But museums and textbooks tend to focus on what those people did while they were alive. Aiming to fix that, a mobile exhibit that rolls into Eagan on Friday looks ...