In a used bookstore in Philadelphia, I paid eight dollars for a collection of dead people. Of course, bookstores generally do not deal in cadavers. But they do sell objects imbued with history: a ...

ROME, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Each time he went to a funeral, Gino Verani came away with a "santino," the traditional laminated card with a picture of the deceased on the front and a prayer on the back.

It's natural to want to help a bereaved family during their time of loss, but whether you should put money in a sympathy card can actually be a bit of a touchy subject. Like everything else ...

There's a nonstop party going on in my Bible, and all the guests, sadly but undeniably, are dead. Every time I attend a funeral, I take one of those prayers cards stacked near the sign-in book. You ...

How do you find the right words to express your deepest sympathies when someone passes away? Sadly, losing a loved one will happen to most of us during our lives. Just the same, there’ll be times ...

The right message can make all the difference to someone struggling. (Picture: Getty) Haruki Marukami wrote that ‘death is not the opposite of life, but part of it’. As devastating, gut-wrenching and ...