Death is a part of life: but environmentally harmful burial practices, overcrowded cemeteries and unaffordable funerals are denying many the right to a good death.
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Burials seem to have been uncommon in Africa some 80,000 years ago, although they were widespread in Eurasia.
City cemeteries are fast running out of space, so researchers surveyed Australians and found many were quite open to the alternatives to traditional burials.
The former justice received a Jewish funeral at the Supreme Court. But in other ways, Ginsburg’s burial is breaking with traditional Jewish death rituals.
A funeral director explains how the bodies of the deceased are prepared for burial or cremation in the United States.
PODCAST: An audio version of an in depth article on what newly discovered documents reveal about the burial of Charles Dickens, 150 years after his death.
How two ambitious men put their own interests ahead of the great writer and his family in an act of institutionally-sanctioned bodysnatching.
Composting burial could revolutionise bodily disposal in Australia. The need for a sustainable and affordable alternative to traditional burial practices is becoming increasingly urgent.
When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from.
With space in our cemeteries running out, we could bury the dead in new forest developments that would bring green space to our urban areas.
The processing time for the government’s Funeral Expenses Payment is decreasing, but the costs related to a funeral are still high.
A play written in the fifth century B.C. mirrors America’s current disunion: Political and moral views are framed in terms of a fight between patriot and traitor, law and conscience, and chaos and order.
A body in an Italian museum reveals that Egyptians living 1,500 or more years before the Pharaohs already knew how to preserve bodies.
Most big city cemeteries in Australia date back to the 1800s, so we need to consider our burial options before we reach the point when the number of deaths exceeds the available cemetery plots.
A failure to innovate could mean the death of the traditional industry.
New evidence suggests that Homo naledi didn’t deliberately deposit their dead in a hidden chamber.
From the basics of corpse disposal to why your wishes don’t actually count.
Many must wish that Shakespeare’s final words to posterity consisted of something more than a curt demand to be left alone.
What’s in a name? In search of the link between the Parisi people of East Yorkshire and Parisii of northern France.
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