Beverley Rose has been planning her funeral for the past five years. According to the The Mirror, the 75-year-old self-described "forward planner" wants to alleviate ...

A woman has planned her own funeral so that her children won't have to deal with the stress of guessing what she would have wanted - and says she wants to be seen off with the least possible amount of ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu asked that his coffin not be ostentatious, a request honored at his funeral Saturday. The famed Anglican archbishop from South Africa “asked that the coffin be the cheapest ...

A funeral director accused of switching out a grandmother’s “gorgeous” $1700 coffin for a $70 pine box between the funeral and cremation has broken his silence. The Rockhampton Morning Bulletin this ...

A sobbing Raúl Muñoz lurched toward a varnished wood coffin at the foot of a small church in Camagüey, Cuba. It was 2 o’clock the morning of November 18, 2006, a little more than a month since Muñoz’s ...

Let this be a lesson for everyone: If you’re shopping for cremation services and you see a price that’s too good to be true, it probably is. I’ll explain why in a moment, but really? Do people ...

Funeral planning is something most of us would prefer to avoid. But it’s important to take control of this process. If you don’t, you might needlessly spend thousands of extra dollars in costs.

Bereaved families will fork out an average of £3,483 this year in the town, with a burial costing £3,753 and a cremation being £3,212. Only Accrington and St Helens are cheaper places to have a ...