Torreon Williams' mother was left screaming in 'shock and horror' at the sight of her son's maggot-infested face, a lawsuit ...

An Alabama woman is suing Springhill Medical Center after her mother's was sent to the funeral home in an advanced state of decomposition. The post ‘Unable to have a fully open-casket ...

But no matter the result, she was resolved to do as Mamie Till had for her son, Emmett, whose brutal 1955 murder galvanized the civil rights movement — leave the casket open for the world to ...

Pope Francis Lies in Open Casket amid Memorial Rites as Date and Location of Funeral Are Announced The late pontiff's funeral will take place on Saturday, April 26, five days after his death at ...

A metal burial casket costs, on average, $2,500, according to the National Funeral Directors Association's 2021 report, and a cremation casket and urn combined cost an average of about $1,600.

“For most people, the hardest part of death is the stillness,” Lensing said. “But that’s also what’s peaceful about it.” In the case of a traumatic death or visible injury, more work is required to ...

Liquid Death & Yeti are auctioning a unique Casket Cooler, merging morbid design with advanced cooling tech. This one-of-a-kind cooler holds 378 cans and keeps them cold with Yeti's Triple Foam ...

In 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy was lynched in Mississippi. Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose insistence on an open-casket funeral helped ignite the civil rights movement.

If he’d known his death was imminent, why didn’t he warn us? I stared at him in his casket, and the sudden flare of anger I felt was so unlike sorrow that I let myself take momentary refuge in it.

ARC is one of only three junior colleges in California to offer a funeral service education program. After 10 years of planning, the two-year school now offers another vital opportunity for aspiring ...

Local Crime & Public Safety When 5 teen girls allegedly beat her son to death, she kept his casket open. As the trial in the 2023 beating death of Reginald “Reggie” Brown begins, his 90-year ...