In a notable display of communal harmony and social solidarity, residents of Ambari-Parerchar village in Assam's Bongaigaon district came together to perform the last rites of a Hindu youth in ...

Raya Elfadel Kheirbek is a professor of medicine and chief of the division of palliative medicine and geriatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He kept everything in a neat folder.

A newly launched national register of approved funeral celebrants and officiants aims to improve transparency and professionalism within the funeral sector, where concerns over standards and ...

On a spring weekend in Boise, Idaho, more than 100 people gathered at Ember Maucere’s home for a three-day party filled with live music, dancing, food and art. They weren’t there for a wedding or ...

ST. PAUL — A former Stillwater-area funeral home director admitted in court Tuesday to the 2001 post-mortem decapitation of a woman whose skull was found a little over a year later by Boy Scouts ...

Mourners are gathering this week to honor the life and legacy of Norman Christopher Francis, the longtime president of Xavier University of Louisiana. Francis took the helm at Xavier in 1968 and led ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Warner Bros‘ Weapons. Writer-director Zach Cregger described the ...

For a spec screenwriter looking for a way into the studio system, few things are better than landing on The Black List. “Twenty-one years into this experiment, it still feels a little miraculous that ...

The Reverend John E. Santor, 86, died December 8, 2025, at St. Mary’s at Asbury Ridge in Erie, Pennsylvania. Father Santor was born on May 26, 1939, in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of Edward S. and ...

After the police found the Grammy-nominated performer in his home with fatal wounds, his son was taken into custody, the authorities said. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Jubilant Sykes, a celebrated opera ...

The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with complex ceremonies such as burying their dead in ships. THE ANUNDSHÖG RUNE ...