Across the earliest monumental sites in southeastern Turkey, carvings of vultures, leopards, and other predators appear ...

Death is a shared commonality of the human condition, yet the rituals that attend it vary significantly across cultures and religions. The one commonality is that while the nature of death itself does ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his successor begins. They involve the certification of ...

This is the second piece in a two-part series about the psychology that drives our relationships with the dead. The first piece focused on how we view the minds of the dead. How do we relate to the ...

Rituals of death can remind us of America’s “new birth of freedom”—and our rebirth and renewal through Christ’s sacrifice. On Memorial Day we are meant to visit the dead. This duty was clearer when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the ...