By the time Leicestershire-born Charis Boyce was six-years-old, she had confronted death and found the experience more ...

“Usually” is a significant qualifier, because unrefrigerated raw milk sours easily as lactic acid-producing bacteria in the ...

The world’s first onsite airport mortuary, Mortuarium Schiphol handles hundreds of “passengers” per year, arranging post-mortem care for travelers who die in-flight or abroad from their home country.

The former funeral home owner is suspected of defrauding more than 100 people in multiple jurisdictions, police have said.

I don’t know where the statement, “You don’t know what you don’t know” originated, but this is true in every facet of life.

Explore the gruesome history of Immurement, a form of punishment where a person was bricked up in a confined space to die.

Funerary practices have been around since the dawn of civilization. By the time Europeans settled in North America, the most ...

What is little known though, is that across every continent and every epoch this same forbidden technique appears under different names: Ba-flight in Egypt, pneuma-ekstasis in Greece, shen-you in ...