What happens when a cemetery is closed, or is simply abandoned? Short answer: This is a complex legal question and...

What happens to unidentified or unclaimed bodies? In this as in so many other matters of deathcare, there is no...

Like different funeral homes, each doula’s practice has its own methods and means of serving clients, personal and particular to...

A year after allegedly murdering her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl, this widow published a children's book on...

Cremains can be built into actual fireworks assembled by a trained pyrotechnics company then launched into the night sky to...

One byproduct of the more accepting climate around death care is the emergence of new ways to remember the deceased...

If your community is ever affected by a disaster of some kind which results in mass casualties, special considerations could...

Trauma and grief take place on individual, community-wide, national and global scales.

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So what are the actual Roman Catholic “last rites”, and what is their purpose?