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Over at The Huffington Post, grief expert Gloria Horsley offers a helpful list of things to say (and things not to say) to...

Source: Flickr/Gerald Pereira When I tell people that I worked in the funeral industry, I’m always asked if it’s...

What’s the difference between saying you love the troops and actually loving them? How about making sure their families...

Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, has been sitting with his mother in a hospital Intensive Care Unit...

It's official: Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge (aka Kate Middleton) has given birth to her internationally...

Today, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed into law by President Clinton in 1996, is...

I graduated from business school four months after my mother died. Shortly before graduation weekend, an out-of-town friend...

What does a good death look like? Photographer Joshua Bright offers one answer to this question with a series of photographs...

Today Google announced a new program to help you control your Gmail and other Google accounts after you die. The program is...

CNN is aggregating a nice collection of tributes from around the world honoring the victims of the Sandy Hook school...

Even if you are fortunate enough not to be personally affected by the Sandy Hook Elementary School slayings, you've almost...

Last night Rock Center with Brian Williams aired a very powerful piece about a tough subject: Talking about dying in order...

Besse Cooper, the world's oldest living person, died this week at the age of 116. Cooper lived in three centuries; she was...

Everplans' Co-Founder Abby Schneiderman was featured prominently in a recent report called "Aging: A Family Affair," which...