In the quiet of a Fallbrook Street home last July, a night of rest turned tragic. Thalia Matos of Carbondale fell asleep beside two-month-old Royce Coxson while her system was clouded by marijuana ...

Ancient Egyptian mummies have a distinctive odor known only to those who've gotten close enough for a sniff. Now, scientists ...

A handful of public companies and private equity-backed firms are targeting funeral homes as the silver tsunami approaches.

Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests.

Derrick Johnson buried his mother’s ashes beneath a golden dewdrop tree with purple blossoms at his home on Maui’s Haleakalā Volcano, fulfilling her wish of a final resting place ...

Hundreds of families learned from officials that the ashes they ceremonially spread or kept close weren’t actually their ...

Honey was similarly associated with the gods in ancient India. In the 1,028 sacred hymns of the Vedic scriptures dating from 1500 BC, many frequently mention honey (madhu in Sanskrit) and claim that ...

When she was just 13 years old, Danielle Calvaresi's grandmother passed away. Looking at her before the funeral, Calvaresi recalls her grandmother looking "grey and waxy", an image so negative it's ...

When Adam and Eve ate of the tree of life in defiance of God’s command, God banished them from the Garden of Eden and admonished them with these words: “For dust thy art, and unto dust shalt thou ...

GARY — A man allegedly threw his young son 10 feet into the air “like a rag doll,” witnesses said, letting the child's head hit the ground at a gas station.

Jon Hallford sentenced to record 40 years after 190 bodies found rotting in his funeral home. Victims speak out on heartbreak and the apology they finally heard.

In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Wanyue Zhao and her colleagues used volatile organic ...