For many Indigenous worldviews, death is understood as a return to land, ancestry, and collective continuity. The body is not ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his successor begins. They involve the certification of ...

In a society where speaking about mortality is thought to bring misfortune, one company is trying to confront it head-on ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope sets ...