We think our attitudes to death are unchanging
UK – Death rituals such as the anglers who turned their friend’s ashes into fishing bait are nothing new.
UK – Death rituals such as the anglers who turned their friend’s ashes into fishing bait are nothing new.
JAPAN – Yumiko Nakajima, a woman in her 70s, is selecting her grave. But instead of choosing a hunk of stone in a
UK – A wave of apps such are emerging to help people plan their own mortal passings, right down to Instagram-
Traditional Arts researcher Michelle Collins tells the fascinating story of the practice of keening at funerals in
UK – We’re lucky in Britain not to face the kind of restrictions over death ceremonies in place elsewhere, so it’s
UK – Fitzwilliam Museum’s exhibition shows how tomb thieves stole materials from older coffins to make new ones
Design historian Mary Ann Bolger shares the fascinating history of the Irish Catholic memorial card.
Archeologist and Viking expert Dr Stephen Harrison, from the University of Glasgow, explains what really
Fr Bartholomew Parys SVD, a Polish priest living and working in Ireland explains the traditions around funerals
‘If these mortuary jewels were as a whole very ugly, what shall be said of the hideous lumps of crudely manufactured jet, which