The costs associated with passing on can vary wildly depending on how someone prefers their death to be handled by loved ones. At the low end, direct cremation (with ashes stored at home or scattered) ...

It is quite possibly the last thing you will ever need to buy online. For those who want to avoid the unpleasant trip to the funeral home, Internet funeral services offer a range of burial options ...

Much has been made of the increased prices of consumer goods caused by the Trump administration’s tariffs and trade war, boosting the costs of everything from baby strollers to laptops and ...

A pall-covered vault containing ashes of the deceased awaits burial before an All Souls’ Day rite of committal in 2019 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, Md. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to start issuing urns and commemorative plaques to the families of deceased veterans this year, but the move has drawn criticism that it could block those ...