Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother suspected of planning the Boston Marathon bombings, died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and tor...
I don't know about anyone else, but I noticed a death last week - something much bigger than an ice-cream scientist who led a small country 25 years ago.
I understand why people are angry by the woman who favoured functional inequalities and believed it to be a necessity for a dynamic economy as she cared little for those consequently suffering.
Before you prepare your obituary make a life statement. Decide how your life should be. What work would you really like to be involved in. How should you and would you spend your time. You can take control of your life and change it's never too late.
I left school in 1983, the same month Margaret Thatcher won her second election. In my Yorkshire hometown there was disbelief that once again the south had returned to power someone who had transformed the industrial heartlands in much the same way the US infantry transformed Baghdad.
Ernie Harburg is the son of the late Yip Harburg - the lyricist of "DIng Dong! The Witch Is Dead" (and all the songs in the "Wizard Of Oz") - and President of the Yip Harburg Foundation. He has released a statement passed on through Ian Baldry, the creator of the facebook campaign to make the track number one.
I am deeply disturbed by the volume of misogynistic vitriol being spouted by certain members of the British public in the wake of Margaret Thatcher's death. What disturbs me the most is not that people are aggressively disagreeing with her politics, but that people are genuinely rejoicing at the death of another person - a mother and a grandmother.
A student has hosted her own funeral – because she felt experiencing “death” would make her appreciate life more keenly. Zeng Jia paid for a...
A business in Essex has started to offer 'rent-a-mourner' services to families of the deceased who fear there many not be enough people at their funer...
A devoted couple who married on Valentine’s Day have shared a joint funeral after dying within a week of each other. Relatives believe Beryl Mat...
Hugo Chavez is to have the somewhat dubious honour of joining the "controversial embalmed corpses of leaders" club, it was announced on Friday. Som...
Hugo Chavez, the once indefatigable leader of Venezuela, died pleading with his Cuban doctors saying: "I don't want to die", according the one of his ...
The country's first funeral apprentices are to be recruited, The Co-operative Group has announced. The company, which is taking on 800 new apprenti...
I'd like to think that, if I'm lucky enough to exceed the age of 80, with all my marbles and my more important faculties all present and correct, I'll be cut some slack in the matter of my more treasured bad habits. I'll feel that, having survived so long indulging my relatively few vices, I might as well head for the exit in a like manner.
My mind has been much exercised recently after reading about a case which has come to light in Edinburgh. It involved a local council and the mummified corpses of an elderly couple. Following their deaths, in 1987 and 1994 respectively, their son had them embalmed in the hope that their family home might be turned into a mausoleum.
A helicopter-shaped floral tribute was laid at the funeral of the pilot who died when he crashed in central London. Pete Barnes, 50, died from mult...
The widow of a lay preacher who was murdered on his way to a Christmas service has told his funeral service about her determination "to turn aside fro...
One thing we all have in common: we're going to die. We won't all get married, have children or see Niagara Falls. But every single one of us will die. Yet the vast majority of us only think about death when we have to.
As winter storms lash the Middle East, politically-themed snowmen are cropping up along the region's usually arid landscapes. As well as ones wear...
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A fashion-mad mother of three killed in a hit-and-run rampage was buried in a leopard skin-patterned coffin as hundreds celebrated her life today. ...
Hundreds of mourners have joined a father to pay their respects to his wife and five children who died in a house fire. Sabah Usmani, a doctor, and...
It is interesting to find out that we don't have to hold a funeral at all. There is no legal requirement. Something has to be done with the body, but the funeral ceremony, celebration of life, memorial or thanksgiving - we hold these ceremonies because we want to, not because we have to.
Although too often an afterthought, end of life costs should form a central part of this planning; a loved one passing away is a difficult enough time as it is, unattended and unexpected financial costs should not add further upset at a time when loved ones are grieving.
