Staff Sgt. John A. Tarbert of the Air Force died weeks before his son was born, but he was accounted for only this year.

There are enough garments in the world to dress the next six generations. Yet the number of clothes being produced in the ...

During exuberant celebrations known as famadihana ("bone-turnings"), certain tribes regularly disinter and rewrap their dead kin in new burial shrouds, essentially to keep them content in the ...

The funeral of Bishop Eamonn Casey in 2017 seemed to draw a line under his scandalous affair years before. But this summer, ...

The U.S. Army has started its annual effort to disinter the remains of students buried on post. This month, the Office of Army Cemeteries will work to recover 11 remains from six tribes in a ...

The Winnebago have sued to force the military to comply with a longstanding law requiring the U.S. government to return Native human remains to their tribes.

KOZHIKODE: The Council of Fatwa and Research of Darul Huda Islamic University has clarified that there is no need to exhume different body parts of the victims of Chooralmala and Mundakkai ...

Somehow we can only feel the pain of abused and abandoned children in safe retrospect, when it is brought to light after ...

Koplow said if Hebrew Free Burial Association learns of a Jew who was buried in potter’s field, it will ask to disinter and then rebury the body “with a Jewish burial in our cemetery.” ...

Saugeen Shores continues to look for help to deal with the erosion of its historic Pioneer Cemetery in Southampton. The 1860 ...