This is an installment in a multi-part series.  Mourning rituals are important cultural markers throughout history. Through ...

Lab-grown diamonds made with cremation ashes are just one way people are honoring their loved ones. By Abigail R. Esman When Alyx Carson’s father was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020, she left her ...

I: Historical background -- Memento Mori: death in the Middle Ages -- La Mort de Toi: death of "the other" in the Age of Enlightenment -- The finger of the Lord hath done it: death in Colonial America ...

For hundreds of years, people wore mourning jewelry to commemorate their dead loved ones. But what secrets about the past can you learn from these dark baubles made of diamonds, skeletons and bits of ...