The first space burial took place on April 21, 1997, when the cremated remains (cremains, or ashes) of twenty-four people were launched into Earth orbit. The Houston-based company Celestis, Inc. performed this historic space memorial service....

In Biblical times, the dead were buried in family graves and were said to ‘sleep with their fathers’. Traditionally the dead are not buried on the *Sabbath or *Yom Kippur. Men are wrapped in their *tallis although coffins came into use in...

Burial, also called interment and (when applied to human burial) inhumation, is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing an object in it, and covering it over. Objects are...

NORWICH, Conn. _ The Mohegans were wiped out long ago in the novel "The Last of the Mohicans," but today the real American Indian tribe is flush with casino cash and using it to restore its proud past.The Connecticut tribe has reclaimed the Mohegan Royal...

Grenada's premier has called on the men convicted of leading a 1983 coup to reveal where they put the remains of slain officials, including former socialist leader Maurice Bishop.The men who killed Bishop, four Cabinet ministers and six of their supporters have said they do...

The boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith appeared in court Tuesday in his quest to "carry out what Anna Nicole wanted" on her burial, closing his eyes as her embalming was discussed.The long-distance battles over what to do with Smith's body _ and the paternity of...

Anna Nicole Smith wanted to be buried next to her son in the Bahamas, where she lived, her companion testified Tuesday in the latest round of legal battles surrounding the model's death.Smith's boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, and her estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, were in a...