Uplifting

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

When a person is buried in a cemetery, the family will often visit the gravesite to pay tribute to the person who died. In...

Marcus Daly is a former wooden boat builder who took his skills and became a casket maker. Daly crafts exceptionally...

For as long as I can remember, every night when my dad would arrive home from work and turn the handle on the apartment...

“You are invited to my pre-mortem wake and roast, a somewhat morbid, deeply irreverent, but joyous celebration of me. This...

George Saunders, a writer best known for his excellent short stories, delivered the 2013 commencement speech at Syracuse...

Last year, I was getting my MBA in London. There, I met Oded, a pastry chef from Israel, who would become a dear friend to...

Warning: Prepare yourself for chills and misty eyes. This ultimate lesson in paying it forward, which has set the Internet...

A man whose father is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease wrote Carol Burnett a touching letter, which you should...

From a post on Reddit: "Late last year the woman I love passed away from ovarian cancer. We used to play Minecraft together...

Source: Instagram, grandmabetty33 Call her InstaGranny! Betty Simpson, who goes by the Instagram handle Grandmabetty33,...

The New York Times has shared a short documentary called "The Caretaker" that looks at the loving, compassionate, and...

  After she experienced the death of someone she loved, New Orleans resident Candy Chang was grieving and thinking about...

After David S. Kime Jr.'s funeral, as his family and friends made their way to the cemetery, they made a pit stop in Kime's...

Last month Slate re-ran a story from 2011 about a man named Harry, his dog Duke, and the Perfect Day they spent together...

After my mom’s cancer diagnosis, lots of things changed: schedules, diets, and priorities, to name a few. But one of the...

For a blog series called A Matter of Life and Death, I admit that I’ve probably talked a lot more about the latter. (Sorry...

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

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

In honor of Mother’s Day, I would like to share a tribute to my mother that I read in front of friends and family 3 ½ years...

How does a funeral home advertise its services without being crass, creepy, or morbid? A Japanese funeral home, Nishinihon...

Judy MacDonald Johnston, creator of Good [End Of] Life, gave a powerful talk at the TED conference this year. It inspired us...

  Every year on Memorial Day we remember the men and women who have died while serving our country in the U.S. Armed...