Living funerals — where people near the end of life plan and attend their own memorials — are becoming increasingly popular.

Your carbon footprint doesn’t end when you die. Conventional death practices like embalming, cremation and getting buried in ...

The Florida execution of James Hitchcock for the 1976 rape and murder of 13-year-old Cynthia Driggers was carried out April ...

James Broadnax was convicted of killing two Christian music producers outside a Garland studio in 2008. Texas executed the 37 ...

A federal jury on Wednesday found that Live Nation LYV-1.05%decrease; red down pointing triangle illegally monopolized the ticketing market for major concerts in the U.S., in a win for a group of ...

The Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission (UPESSC) has introduced stricter measures to prevent fraud in the upcoming UP-TET 2026 examination. The Prayagraj-headquartered Uttar Pradesh ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The widow and two children of a South Gate man allege that a Montebello funeral home brutally botched their loved ...

The distinctive smell of ancient mummies is helping scientists decode the secrets of Egyptian mummification. By analyzing tiny traces of chemicals in the air around mummy samples, researchers ...

Relatives of a man who died of heart problems are suing a Montebello mortuary, saying they were “horrified” that the embalming was done so poorly that liquid was oozing from the decedent’s face during ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Wanyue Zhao and her colleagues used volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to analyze the composition of scents given off by mummies ...

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