Your death is going to set in motion several actions involving your body and burial. Someone must first make a legal ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his successor begins. They involve the certification of ...

The death of Pope Francis now sets off a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals. Francis has said he wants to be buried not in St. Peter’s Basilica or its grottoes, where most popes are ...

It’s that time of year again–time for Emma Crawford and her pallbearers to don their funniest, spookiest, cleverest costumes ...

Losing a loved one who served in the military comes with emotional and financial challenges, and the Department of Veterans ...

A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants.

GRAND MARAIS (AP) -- The build-your-own-coffin class starts with instructor Mark Hansen describing the first one he built. It was for Helmer Aakvik, a Lake Superior fisherman from Hovland, Minn. Back ...

Gordon S. Coffin Sr., 87, of North Catasauqua and formerly of Linden Street, Bethlehem, passed away Saturday, January 13, 2007 in Liberty Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Allentown. He and his wife, ...