Next-of-kin often feel pressured to make hasty funeral arrangements. Most contact a funeral director and tee up a conventional service plus burial or cremation. But what are the other options?
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Also known as alkaline hydrolysis or aquamation, the process is much better for the environment than burial or cremation.
With so many people grieving, the notion of doing so in public was seen as tasteless and vulgar. Funerals became smaller, people put on a brave face in public and fewer people wore black.
Gender plays a major role in how mourning is done by the Akan ethnic group of Ghana
Think about what story it is you want to tell about your loved one, how you want it to end and what you want your audience to take home.
Kibaki gave Kenya’s higher education sector a free market capitalistic orientation, endearing him to the World Bank and the IMF
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.
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.
It is important that procedures surrounding funerals are developed by public health officials alongside traditional and religious authorities.
Funeral homes, crematoria and morgues face many challenges in the months ahead as the coronavirus death toll rises.
Up to 10% of deceased people in big cities get no burial ceremony, in many cases because they requested it.
Guess how much the average funeral now costs. Hint: it’s more than most people pay for a second hand car.
A body in an Italian museum reveals that Egyptians living 1,500 or more years before the Pharaohs already knew how to preserve bodies.
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