Mourners are paying their respects to former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel as his body lies in state at New York City Hall.

A simulation has shown exactly what happens to our body after we die, including the key stages of decomposition.

A Czech woman declared dead surprises everyone by showing signs of life in her coffin, illustrating the rare medical ...

The terrifying simulation shows how the body decomposes from flesh and blood into a skeleton with the process starting almost ...

An 88-year-old woman who had been pronounced dead woke up inside her own coffin after a huge mistake from the coroner. In a situation that would make anyone claustrophobic, the woman “woke up” and ...

A family is suing a beleaguered New York funeral home, alleging workers sent the casket containing the body of their 96-year-old mother to the wrong country to be buried, which the family learned ...

In the Highlands and Islands, trace the steps of historic funeral processions through epic landscapes on some of Scotland’s ...

An 88 year old woman from the Czech Republic was mistakenly declared dead by a coroner, who then began preparing her body for ...

But the day of Johnson’s funeral, it wasn’t the great-grandmother of seven whose body was in the casket, Lynch was told by a funeral director during the service. “Upon information and belief ...

As part of Francis’ push to simplify the papal funeral rites, his body is lying in state in an open wooden coffin, having done away with the tradition of having three coffins of cypress ...

were the first to file up to Francis' coffin on Wednesday. The cardinals were followed by thousands of mourners from every walk of life, many waiting four hours or longer to see the pope's body.