Mayor Cory A. Booker pounded a podium, yelling "Enough is enough!" at a funeral Saturday for one of three college students forced against a schoolyard wall and killed with shots to the head.
Mourners packed a church Thursday where a Virginia Tech German instructor grew up to say goodbye to a man who had a passion for life and the language he taught.
A funeral procession Wednesday led the body of a 20-year-old Virginia Tech shooting victim and American history buff past views of the Washington monuments she loved on the way to her burial, fittingly, at Arlington National Cemetery.
In Ireland, they bury people quickly — and now they're harnessing the speed of the Internet to help families grieve across the globe.
Two Bluffton University baseball players were laid to rest Thursday, nearly a week after their bus plunged from a highway overpass in Atlanta as the team traveled to a tournament.
Bruised and bandaged, college baseball players stood in a circle and put their arms around one another Wednesday at the funeral for one of their four teammates killed in a bus wreck. Scott Harmon, a 19-year-old freshman at Bluffton University, was remembered as being passionate about sports and as a prankster who was the life of the party.
The military community here has grown accustomed to burying its soldiers, but the funerals this week are taking an especially heavy toll.
Less pomp, more circumstance. Gerald R. Ford's state funeral is missing some of the grandeur of the one for Ronald Reagan two years ago, a reflection of the 38th president's modest ways and lesser imprint on the nation, according to further planning details released Thursday.
In the heat of passion, many crazed baseball fans have said they would die for a championship. One company hopes some fans are actually willing to take their devotion to the grave.
The Irish part of a funeral for a young Irish woman who died while serving with the US forces in Afghanistan has taken place in Co Galway.
Site to help people write and deliver beautiful funeral readings.
Funerals for five of the six Italians killed in Germany last week in what has been described as a Mafia vendetta will be held in southern Italy on Thursday. Police in Calabria fear further violence as members of a local crime clan may be planning revenge killings.
Officials said the mine where six workers were trapped could resume operating with a new name.
As a town faced the prospect of six lost miners being entombed permanently, officials of the Crandall Canyon mine said it could be back in business soon.
In times of sadness humans yearn for the affirmation of plenty. In the case of death, that can be defined as neighbors showing up with endless pans of lasagna, despite the fact that Uncle Gus died of clogged arteries
We all die -- and then what? Well, you can continue to reduce your carbon footprint even after you're gone. This story is about environmentally sensitive burial practices -- turns out being cremated with the use of coal or natural gas produced energy is just not green enough.
The families of those killed in the Virginia Tech massacre may not be able to grieve in peace at the funerals of those they lost.
Yevgeniy Marshalik, a 19-year-old auxiliary officer killed by a gunman last week, was honored in Brooklyn on Sunday.
The Stage of Grief No One Admits To: Relief When my husband was killed in an accident, I refused to let society dictate how I should grieve. This story made me wonder how many other aspects of life are controlled by our wish to appear proper.
President Bush has signed into a law an amendment to U.S. law protecting military funerals from protests like those staged by a controversial Kansas church that characterizes soldiers' deaths as divine punishment for homosexuality.
Here is what I propose. Forget the constitutional amendment about flags.
The controversial anti-homosexual Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., has canceled its plans to stage a protest at the funerals of the five Amish girls executed in their Pennsylvania school, a church official said Wednesday.
(CNSNews.com) - A Kansas-based group that says "God hates fags" plans to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed by a disturbed man in Lancaster County, Pa.
Research for the Bereavement Register found just over a half (51 percent) of people ask for a specific song be played at their funeral and 79 percent have talked with family and friends about possible song choices.
Bob Geiger: On August 2, Republicans in the United States Senate were all atwitter over the possibility of passing yet another giant tax cut for the wealthy -- it was defeated late Thursday night -- and I thought you should know where Massachusetts Democrats John Kerry and Ted Ke …
A discussion about protests by an anti-homosexual church at the funerals of fallen American soldiers turned into an astounding shoutfest on national television this weekend, with Fox News host Julie Banderas calling a fire-and-brimstone Christian preacher "the devil" and apparent …
The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from a fundamentalist Kansas church filed an invasion-of-privacy suit against the demonstrators Monday.
"Americans have congressional lobbying and corruption; Chinese have funerals and corruption."
APRIL 27--In what will surely repulse Pennsylvanians, a Domino's delivery man used a car to transport corpses to funeral parlors when he wasn't using the vehicle to bring pies and Cheesy Bread to pizza enthusiasts.
"Fred Phelps has pioneered the charming practice of protesting people's funerals.
Only in America: patriotic bikers vs. an anti-gay reverend.
"TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's obsession with camera-equipped mobile phones has taken a bizarre twist, with mourners at funerals now using the devices to capture a final picture of the deceased.