A rabbi who has performed hundreds of funeral writes that the answer speaks not only to how we honor the dead, but to what we ...

One grave had been robbed during ancient times, while the other one contained a wooden sarcophagus covered with gypsum ornaments holding a teenager’s skeleton inside. The wooden sarcophagus had ...

Another option is a cardboard coffin. "They're tested to exactly the same standard as a wooden coffin” says Gemma Johnson of the Association of Green Funeral Directors. “They can be personalised.

The pope will be buried in a single, zinc-lined wooden coffin, abandoning the centuries-old tradition of interlocking caskets made of cypress, lead, and oak. This decision reflects Francis ...