New Orleans conducted a deeply meaningful ceremony combining multifaith memorial services with traditional jazz funeral celebrations to honor 19 African American individuals whose remains were finally ...

Foreword / Jan Vansina -- Funerals in Africa : An Introduction / Michael Jindra and Joël Noret -- ch. 1. African Funerals and Sociocultural Change : A Review of Momentous Transformations across a ...

In many cultures across the world, funerals are meant to be solemn rites of passage : moments when families pause to grieve, ...

Luhya elders shared how COVID-19 quietly transformed Luhya funeral traditions, while reflecting on the cultural shift and the ...

Sir: A recent Facebook post by a Danish woman, Anja Ringgren Loven, was a brutal reminder of the debauched mourning traditions in some parts of Nigeria. In the post, Anja noted how she and her team ...

South Africa is fast running out of burial space, prompting urgent calls from the South African Funeral Parlour Association (SAFPA) for the government and communities to confront what it describes as ...