"A new mythology, essential to the twentieth-century American funeral rite has grown up--or rather has been built up step by step--to justify the peculiar customs surrounding the disposal of our ...

the five men who have occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter's state funeral. In that one act, they created a momentary timeline of American ...

The more realistic figure of $2 billion yields a nationwide average of $1450 for the disposition of the mortal remains of an adult American. Funeral people, confronted with the charge that they ...

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

So they called DiMaggio. DiMaggio stepped in and orchestrated his ex-wife’s funeral. DiMaggio barred the public and almost all the Hollywood glitterati — producers, directors and actors ...

(JTA) — Before he paid his respects at the funeral of Wadea al-Fayoume, the 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy stabbed to death in what police are calling a hate crime, Rabbi Ari Hart called ...

In the 18th season of 'American Idol', Doug Kiker auditioned with a heartfelt rendition of 'Bless the Broken Road' ...

the five men who have occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter's state funeral. In that one act, they created a momentary timeline of American ...