JAIPUR, IndiaA man awoke on a funeral pyre moments before it was to be set on fire after a doctor skipped a postmortem, medical officials said on Saturday. The 25-year-old man, Rohitash Kumar, was rushed to hospital for a second time, but was confir

A Queens family filed a lawsuit this week against a funeral home, accusing it of sending their loved one’s body to the wrong country, according to court records. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by Carlos Minchala and his siblings, says that the Rivera

Warning: This story mentions suicide and contains descriptions of a suicide. SINGAPORE: A funeral director convicted of assisting her ex-boyfriend's suicide by nitrogen gas was sentenced to six years and two months' jail on Friday (Oct 18).  City Fu

In gentrifying Brooklyn, as neighborhoods shift, once booming businesses can fade away. But at District, a new gym inside the former Scotto Funeral Home in Carroll Gardens, there’s hope in the afterlife. Carved out of the combined lower floors of tw