Mourning rituals, which include throwing bodies of suicide victims into the grave at night, beating the corpse, and piercing the manhood or buttocks of childless men who die, are actually good for ...

A lot of the funeral process or steps kind of follow ... Mr Kelen said there were three "death rituals". Ilomej: A vigil where the family keeps the departed loved ones and people come and share ...

Five clay figurines uncovered in El Salvador feature detachable heads with holes, possibly allowing them to be moved like ...

Wherever it takes place, whoever’s life has ended, a funeral is a kind of collective memory bank. No two memories of the deceased, spoken or unspoken, work the same way. But a person’s life, and its ...

Together, “sackcloth and ashes” represented several human conditions: frailty, mortality, expressing and asking for forgiveness, and worn as part of the mourning ritual. Covering oneself with ...

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of transition. By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from ...

Akhilesh Yadav's decision to forgo the thirteenth-day mourning ritual for his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav, has sparked ...

Jason Nevarez is the Senior Rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in University City. (Photo courtesy of Congregation Beth Israel) For Senior Rabbi Jason Nevarez at Beth Israel, the largest Jewish ...