COMMENTARY: However, vigils for popes, like the current one for Pope Francis, have been the exception, not the rule.

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

Friends and relatives of people who were sent to the Maryland crematory have been left waiting for ashes and answers. Records ...

Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...

The US has warned its citizens to avoid parts of Beirut as major airlines cancel flights ahead of Hezbollah leader Hassan ...

"I was removing a female decedent from a home, and the front porch stairs were steep. She wasn’t strapped onto the stretcher ...

While a funeral director literally directs a funeral service, in centuries gone by an undertaker was primarily responsible for taking the body away ... three generations before it was sold in ...

On Saturday, a private funeral service took place at the Ismaili ... as Prince Karim’s body was taken in a van. They carried his body, draped in a white shroud, and placed it on a yacht on ...

There was no obvious physical trauma found on Manzano’s body, he added. Manzano was born in Mexico City and later moved to Kansas, NBC affiliate KSNT reported. He leaves behind a 2-year-old ...

Another key difference concerns the fact that in own-body perception all the sensory and motor cues that converge into the “my body” percept are strictly bound by physical laws. For example, when ...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team has been given "read only" access to the Treasury Department's federal payment system, and federal expenditures have not been affected, the ...

On Monday night, Jackson County sheriff’s deputies discovered the teen’s body on Wildwood Road in ... She said she tried to stop him before he left the home after school Monday because she ...