Funeral

A hospice center in Urbandale, Iowa, is accused of mistakenly presuming a 66-year-old patient was dead when she was not, NBC News reported Thursday.

The Queen’s funeral not being used for business may be forgotten, with Joe Biden now due to have private discussions with the new UK PM.

The leader of Britain’s left-wing Labour party has demanded that those looking to protest Britain’s monarchy do not “ruin” the experiences of those currently mourning the Queen.

The UK clarified its position on VIP transport for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral after a leak claimed world leaders would be bussed to London.

Foreign bigwigs looking to attend the Queen’s funeral have been asked to leave their private jets at home by the UK government.

A Vietnam War veteran who recently passed away without family and friends was honored in a special way by dozens of strangers in St. Louis.

A lawsuit recently filed in Brooklyn alleges a funeral home failed to stop a melee during a memorial service, according to a report, and the incident was caught on camera.

The Orange County coroner’s office has been ordered to pay $1.5 million to the family of a homeless man whom they were told was dead — though he was actually still alive, and a different homeless man had been buried in their loved one’s grace.

A plea for help to honor a veteran who passed away with only a few friends resulted in a huge community gathering.

A 24-year-old slain rapper’s dead body was seen propped up in Washington, D.C.’s Bliss nightclub for his “last show.” Bliss management apologized for the event, saying they had no idea of “of what would transpire.”

Just 300 coffins remained in Hong Kong as of March 17 due to a recent surge in coronavirus deaths, a funeral industry spokesman said.

An actress in New York City lost her job from her theater company after complaining about road closures for slain Officer Jason Rivera’s funeral.

A close family member will adopt the newborn son of two Florida sheriff’s deputies who recently committed suicide.

Funeral services for slain Bradley, Illinois, police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic took place Friday. She was killed while responding to a noise complaint on December 30.

Police in southern China’s Guizhou province recently exhumed and cremated a woman’s corpse against her family’s wishes as part of their strict enforcement of China’s funeral reforms, which prohibit citizens from burying their dead to conserve land in certain regions, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Wednesday.

Brian Laundrie’s cause of death, the young man who was Gabby Petito’s fiancé, has yet to be determined, the family’s lawyer told reporters on Monday.

A Bronx woman has been found guilty of using obituaries to target homes of mourners and then burglarizing the houses while families were at wakes and funerals.

Gabby Petito was remembered at a memorial service Sunday in Long Island, during which her father appeared to mention her relationship with her missing boyfriend, Brian Laundrie.

Two young boys in Batesville, Indiana, were photographed after they jumped off of their bicycles to show their gratitude during the funeral of 89-year-old veteran Charles Everett Yorn.

It has been over a week since more than 17 inches of rain swept through Humphreys County, Tennessee, taking the lives of 20 residents and hurting many more.

A county government in southwestern China banned residents from holding birthday parties and other celebrations starting this month as part of a frugality campaign by China’s ruling Communist Party.

Crematoriums in Delhi began using their parking lots for mass funeral pyres in recent days as they operate beyond capacity amid a relentless surge of new Chinese coronavirus cases and deaths across India.

Established wedding shops in northern India have been forced to sell cremation items in recent months as the Chinese coronavirus pandemic shifts consumer demand from marriage ceremonies to funerals.

Prince William asked for his cousin Peter Phillips to walk between him and Prince Harry during the funeral cortege, according to reports, suggesting there were continued strained relations following Meghan and Harry’s accusations-charged interview.

The Royal Family has revealed the vehicle the Duke of Edinburgh designed to take him on his final journey: a customised Land Rover hearse in military green.

Zimbabwe’s government on Monday banned families from transporting the bodies of people who recently died to their city of origin for burial — a local custom in the southern African nation — as part of an effort to control the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

The funeral for the murderer of French teacher Samuel Paty saw the terrorist celebrated as a hero by locals.

Police and mourners clashed in Buenos Aires on Thursday at the funeral of soccer star Diego Armando Maradona as thousands of people physically competed to pay their respects.

A crematorium employee told a minister and mourners they could not say the Lord’s Prayer at a funeral because it is “chanting” which is banned under coronavirus laws.

A man was left “heartbroken” after a funeral director interrupted his father’s funeral to tell him to stop comforting his grieving elderly mother because of coronavirus social distancing rules.

Seven people were shot Wednesday afternoon at roughly 12:45 p.m. while preparing to go into a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, funeral home. 

Police in Peru arrested clowns attending the funeral of a colleague who died from the coronavirus in an increased effort to enforce lockdown restrictions and slow the spread of the disease.

Family and friends gathered this week to mourn five-year-old Cannon Hinnant, who was shot and killed Sunday in Wilson, North Carolina.

An anonymous donor offered to completely cover the funeral expenses for a Texas man whose wife died unexpectedly of a heart attack.

Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, leader of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, memorialized the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) during Thursday’s funeral service by inserting the civil rights figure into a Bible verse which Christians almost universally consider a reference to Jesus Christ.

Would these awful people really risk their lives and gather this way (indoors!) if they believed they were risking their own lives?