A Japanese company has programmed a popular robot, Pepper, to perform Buddhist funeral rites. But will society ever accept ...

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To be unclaimed does not in itself mean that a person was unloved in life or unmissed in death. Prickett sees it as the culmination of several significant shifts in the way we live, the net effect of ...

Edinburgh’s Grade A-listed Mortonhall Crematorium has opened up its doors to the world with a virtual tour of the facility.… ...

The body of U Thant, former U.N. Secretary General, was buried at a site chosen by students in defiance of his relatives who wanted him buried elsewhere in Rangoon ...

Traveling to Indonesia can sound expensive, but there are plenty of islands you can visit without breaking the bank. These ...

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Led by spiritual seeker Homer Bradshaw, The Disciples of Truth had a brief, failed tryst with a religion they understood ...

Judith Graham, KFF Health News' "Navigating Aging" columnist, talks with older adults who live alone by choice or ...

Most meteor showers originate from the debris of comets, but a few — including the Geminids — result from the debris of ...

Artists at risk back home are finding solace and relative safety in Thailand’s remote corners and art communities ...

Ding-A-Ling has two meanings – a person who hears a bell ring in his head or someone who is stupid or eccentric.