Southerners quickly switch into hosting gear at the first sign of a wedding or a baby shower, deploying casseroles, strategizing seating charts, and polishing silverware. Funerals are no exception. In ...

When thinking about funerals (you know, as one does), you likely picture mourners clad in black surrounding a casket or scattering ashes into the wind. These traditions are meant to honor someone ...

It’s hard to miss the coffin shaped like an old Nokia brick phone at the entrance of the sunlit workshop on the outskirts of Accra. Here, on a busy road next to Ghana’s Atlantic coastline, Eric Kpakpo ...

A traditional priest and fisherman was buried inside a giant blue teapot in Ghana’s Central Region in 2009. - Regula Tschumi It was a funeral two years in the making. The deceased had laid in a morgue ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Mourners will bid their final farewells to the late Pope Francis at his funeral on Saturday, which will blend conventional Catholic funeral traditions with rituals reserved ...