As people gather for the holidays, some use the opportunity to discuss difficult but important family topics. That includes what folks want to happen when they die and how they want to be remembered.

WELLFLEET, Mass. -- When 20-month-old Adelaida Kay Van Meter died of a rare genetic disease last winter, her father, Murro, gently carried her body out of the house to his wood shop in the pines near ...

According to the New York Times, there's a hip new thing all the kids are trying these days: home funerals. Apparently, a growing number of people are bypassing funeral homes and handling the funeral ...

People are building their own coffins and displaying them in their homes, just waiting around until they die. Casketbuildersupply.com; Lastthings.net People are dying for this DIY project. Across the ...

Even though caring for our own dead loved ones used to be the norm (right up until the the last quarter of the 19th century) many people responded to our story on modern home funerals with a ...

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When my mother died in 2017, having been her carer, I wasn’t able to hand her over to faceless bureaucracy. Instead, I found a local funeral director who told me there are in fact only two rules about ...

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