LONDON — In the affluent neighborhood of Crouch End in London, a new business is attracting some attention. The storefront’s blue-and-white facade is airy and minimalist. Three polka-dot vases on ...

Steve Ball’s grave was marked not by a granite headstone or marble mausoleum upon the burial of his cremated remains last year, but a flat rock chipped into the shape of a heart. It came from his ...

Funerals, once strictly subdued and somber affairs, are giving way to creative and splashy events as local funeral homes are getting requests for new ways to personalize the final goodbye. Millennials ...

This week, we’re talking with Louise Winter, the funeral director and founder of Poetic Endings, as well as the co-director of the initiative Life. Death. Whatever. Poetic Endings is an award-winning ...

When people lose a loved one — especially unexpectedly — environmental consciousness may be the last thing on their minds. But modern funeral practices are wreaking havoc on the environment. Bodies ...

If you traveled back in time 50, 100 or even 200 years, many of the funeral practices you’d observe would look relatively similar to the services you’ve attended in recent years. In the early Puritan ...

Have you ever wondered what it looks like behind the scenes of a funeral home? This weekend George Boom Funeral Home is opening their new facility to give anyone interested a tour! We got a look at ...