Historians estimate cremation developed as a funeral practice about 5,000 years ago, but it’s only become popular in the United States over the past couple decades.
Henry Gunther died at 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, less than one minute before the end of the Great War.
Before becoming the longtime bassist for .38 Special, Junstrom played in a nascent lineup of Skynyrd
Morten Stützer, guitarist and founding member of Danish thrash metal veterans ARTILLERY, has died. He was only 57 years old.
Drummer who straddled jazz, blues and rock ‘passed away peacefully’
Thousands of French teachers took to the streets Thursday in solidarity with a principal who committed suicide in the lobby of her school last month after complaining in a letter about a work overload leaving her "exhausted".
While no immediate cause of death has been revealed, Blabbermouth report that Brunelle’s sister-in-law took to social media to confirm his passing: “This devastating post is at the request of my husband and his mother,” she wrote. “It is with deep regret and sorrow that we inform Richie’s friends and fans that he passed away… Rest in peace, Richie. You were so loved and will be forever missed.”
World leaders gather to pay final respects to charismatic and popular former president
Climate change is causing trouble on Herschel Island.
Toward a new definition of eternity.
A striking glass tribute to two sisters who suffered during Scotland's "Killing Time."
This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.
Plans have been unveiled for a national memorial to all those condemned as witches in Scotland during the 16th to 18th Centuries.
A total of 440 pairs of high-heel black shoes were installed recently on a facade of a building in downtown Istanbul to draw attention to the equal number of women murders in Turkey last year and raise awareness against increasing male violence in the country
Eddie Money revealed last month he had stage four oesophageal cancer
Tributes have poured in for an Iranian girl who died when she set herself alight after being refused entry to a football stadium in Tehran.
Zimbabwe after Mugabe
Jeff Fenholt, who played the title role in the original Broadway production and tour of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Jesus Christ Superstar and later became a TV evangelist, died Tuesday.
Community members of all ages and local artists are being asked to contribute art for community ofrendas as part of Día de los Muertos, an ancient tradition in Mexico that has become popular the world over.
Having a cardiac arrest during sex on a business trip can be considered a "workplace accident", Paris Court of Appeal has ruled.
Behind the thousand-year-old church whose windows look out on the noisy redshanks and oystercatchers hunting for mussels and crabs in Morecambe Bay, beyond the stone cut graves featured on the cover of one of many unofficial Best of Black Sabbath albums, is a small graveyard.
DIG YOUR OWN HOLE: A man shovels out dirt during the 4th National Grave Digging Competition in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. Participants must dig an 80cm wide, 200cm long and 160cm deep hole before refilling it, in the shortest possible time.
Somewhere between a funeral and a celebration of the Toronto Raptors.
The slender stairway is part of one of the coffin trails in the area, once used as a shortcut to transport the deceased from Arnside to the burial ground at St Michael and All Angels Parish Church in Beetham.
As children in many parts of the world return to school, UNICEF is calling for greater protection of children living in conflict
FUNERAL directors should be licensed as part of a crackdown on “cowboy” firms exploiting grieving relatives, SNP ministers have been told.
Dying might not seem like it would be a big expense, but in these 17 US states, it will cost the typical person around $20,000, according to GOBankingRates' data.
Londoners are abandoning tradition to give their loved ones more unique send-offs as religious funeral services appear to be dying off, according to new research.
But there's a new, some say skin-crawling way to memorialize those who have passed away: by preserving their tattooed flesh so it can be framed and displayed, according to a report by Nine News Australia.
A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.
