For many Indigenous worldviews, death is understood as a return to land, ancestry, and collective continuity. The body is not ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

This is the second piece in a two-part series about the psychology that drives our relationships with the dead. The first piece focused on how we view the minds of the dead. How do we relate to the ...

It was spring 2022, and it was almost time for Houston Public Media to commit to an idea for a YouTube series. The station was one of three organizations to receive CPB funding through PBS for an ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his successor begins. They involve the certification of ...