Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. ~ Stephen Levine We’ve barely caught our breath after enduring the holidays of November, December, and January, and now the...

Source: RDNE Stock Project/Pexels Grief is often described as something internal, an emotion we feel, a process we endure, a private terrain we must navigate. Yet grief rarely stays contained within the self. It moves outward, subtly reshaping our relationships,...

By Tonya Ramsey Abeln • Photos Provided Valentine’s Day has always been an interesting time to be walking around with a broken heart. While most of the world is covered in pink foil and red hearts searching for the favor...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) - Talking about funerals can be a tough discussion with your loved ones, but a necessary one according to Dan Ford, a Cheshire funeral home director and the new president of the National Funeral Directors Association...

Removal teams "trudged through layers of human decomposition on the floor" Derrick Johnson, whose mother’s body was one of 189 left to decay in the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., holds photos of her in Colorado Springs,...

In what could be a first for our area, Green-Wood Cemetery is Brooklyn is planning to offer so-called "human composting." Some say it's an environmentally conscious way to care for the dead, but not everyone agrees with this approach to...

OKLAHOMA CITY, (KOKH) - An Oklahoma couple has filed a lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma state law that restricts who can sell caskets in Oklahoma. Currently, the law requires a funeral director license to sell caskets, which the couple says would...

A decade after her mother’s death, Sarah Ebner reflects on how Jewish rituals helped her cope with her loss “You live with loss for ever,” she explains. “Time going by proves that as long as one of you is living...

Green-Wood Cemetery is moving forward to become the first cemetery in New York state to offer natural organic reduction. It's an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional burial and cremation. “As the years go, by we’ve evolved in different ways we...

Green-Wood Cemetery will start offering a service called Natural Organic Reduction, where a human body is decomposed naturally and turned into soil New Yorkers will soon have another eco-friendly burial option in Brooklyn: turning a body into nutrient-rich soil. The...