Funeral

Former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden appeared to have a gloomy look on their faces during a tense conversation at the funeral of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei led funeral prayers for slain Hamas terrorist chief Ismail Haniyeh in a ceremony at Tehran University.

Mourners gathered for the funeral of opposition leader Alexei Navalny faced a heavy police presence in Moscow on Friday.

The married owners of a Colorado funeral home are facing 260 criminal charges after being accused of abandoning nearly 200 decaying bodies and spending their customers’ money on lavish vehicles and cryptocurrency.

The latest unsettling high-tech craze in China involves bereaved families hiring artificial intelligence (AI) firms to create audiovisual simulations of the dearly departed.

China held a funeral and cremation ceremony for former premier Li Keqiang on Thursday, making an effort to hustle him off the national stage quickly and quietly while mourners quoted his words as veiled criticism of increasingly unpopular dictator Xi Jinping.

Ariel Zohar, 13, buried his entire family on Wednesday after they were murdered by Palestinian Hamas terrorists in the Oct. 7 terror attack in Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel. Ariel was the sole survivor; he had gone out for a jog alone that morning.

An elderly Ecuadorian woman found alive, knocking on her coffin at her wake earlier this month, has died.

A deputy died after falling ill while training last week, Indiana’s Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday.

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.

German authorities have ordered for the national flag to be flown at half-mast in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth II.

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.

The queue for those looking to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II while she is Lying-in-State could be up to five miles long.

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 funeral for former Secretary of State Madeline Albright will take place at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, April 27.

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.