funerals

Sometimes the atmosphere is bittersweet, a celebration of a life well-lived. Other times, it’s heartbreakingly sad. There was the woman who’d befriend anyone; the young man with so much potential whose death was shrouded in mystery (or…

Edward Cutler knows a lot about a very particular sort of international travel.The company he runs, Slaters International Funeral Directors, specialises in repatriating people who have died in the UK. It has a fleet of private…

Truculent ponies too cold to trot. A funeral carriage stuck in the mud. Mourners crushed to death. Jewels that tumbled — mid-procession — off the crown and on to the road. The British state funeral, the ultimate valediction to a public…

By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio On a humid August afternoon in 2020, two caskets ― one silver, one white ― sat by holes in the ground at a small, graveside service in the town of Travelers Rest, South Carolina. The…

Kriti Sanon had made 'a humble request' to the media to avoid covering funerals. The actor's appeal came after Dilip Kumar's funeral. PUBLISHED ON JUL 07, 2021 06:46 PM IST Kriti Sanon has made a 'humble request' to the media and…

Chris Hamilton, his wife Kristin and their three daughters held a memorial service recently for his mother, Rona, who died last year, days after the pandemic-related lockdown began.They picked the weekend of her April 23 birthday and set…

Issued on: 01/05/2021 - 21:47 Hundreds of chanting mourners carrying Chadian flags gathered in the capital, N'Djamena Saturday to bury some of the victims who were shot dead this…