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How about having your ashes used in a sex toy, so your partner can remember your more intimate moments together?...

Instead of being vague about his daughter Molly’s cause of death, Tom Parks wrote point-blank that his daughter died of...

In China, friends and family of the deceased may have to do without a special form of funereal entertainment: strippers....

When Michael McQueen's father died suddenly from a heart attack in 2004, the author discovered the true significance of written...

“There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly...

The long-standing tradition here and around the country created a stable, generational customer base and a thriving industry even in...

In the healthiest sense possible, Heather Lende has an intimate relationship with death. She is the longtime obituary writer in...

Funerals, like writing online reviews of goods and services, are for the living. The dead don’t care that the funeral...

The body of the tiny 78-year-old woman, gray hair falling over stiffened shoulders, was brought to a hillside at Western...

I’M A FOURTH GENERATION FUNERAL DIRECTOR. In total, we have 17 funeral homes — my dad and three of his...