Before funeral homes became commonplace in West Virginia, neighbors built coffins, dug graves, brought food and stayed through the night with the dead.

An in conversation between GraveSite co-founder and editor-in-chief Delaney Rebernik and The Order of the Good Death’s executive director Sarah Chavez.

How did some remains of those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks end up in what was once the world's largest landfill? In this episode: the battle that continues to this day over what some see as ...

As hopes for those still missing fade, families without the remains of their relatives are burning effigies on miniature funeral pyres.

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A professor finds that teaching death and dying opens the door to difficult questions, challenged assumptions, and unexpected conversations about faith, meaning, and what it means to live.

The Hungry Ghost Festival or Yu Lan is the time of year when, in Taoist and Buddhist beliefs, the gates to the spirit world are opened and the deceased walk the earth again searching for their living ...

Building a meaningful, eco-friendly, and equitable end of life.

After her sister died, Candis Best struggled with how to handle her body. Best launched Leaf & Water to plan water cremations for families seeking a gentler option.

The first time Terry O’Neal walked into an old cemetery, she found splintered coffins pushed up by storms and time, with “skeletons sitting outside of caskets.” In Chloe, Louisiana, the acre that hold...

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The silicone figures are a touching version of what the Hindi language calls ‘smaran’, or remembrance

The idea of royalty sharing their beds with the shrivelled corpse of a man yanked out of a grave is nothing short of shocking, but it wouldn’t have been an unusual sight in the court of the Spanish Ha...

“This book was written outside the cemetery wall … in memory of life, the wonder & pain of it & the unspeakable worthwhileness of every second of it.”

The death positive movement is a social justice movement fighting for everyone's access to vital resources and informatiion for a better life and death.

As concerns about cost, climate, and meaning converge, more people are turning to funeral practices that nourish ecosystems instead of depleting them.

The bill was introduced on Trans Day of Visibility.

From coffins and tombs to cemeteries and funerals, design is ever-present in immortalizing death