In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope.

Prospect Hill Cemetery will now preserve the final resting place of hundreds of people in Potter's Field in North York after ...

Deep in the woods of Georgia, we explore a forgotten African American cemetery that began as a burial ground for people who ...

A Knoxville family struggles to find closure after a dispute with a cemetery over a footstone placement. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Knoxville family is still looking for closure after their loved one died ...

A humble monument that tells someone’s life story stands in a quiet corner of a cemetery. TikToker Mel (@mjbc67), who refers to herself as the undertaker’s daughter, is highlighting this monument, ...

Two years ago on a July afternoon, devoted mother Ann Blackwood cycled to the cemetery where her only son was buried. It was a visit she had made many times before in the 20 years since he had died, ...

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Benoît Gallot is in the business of dying. As the curator of Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, a role he took on in 2018 at the age of 36, he manages the affairs of one of France’s most sought-after ...

There was a firefight in Rising Sun, Indiana, in 1877 when two armed posses mistook each other for body snatchers. In 1877, poor little Fannie Belle Talbott, four-year-old daughter of Sarah and Albert ...

There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked from one mass grave to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Mount Vernon is 21 miles from my home. Lately I can almost feel the tremors from the nation’s general-turned-first ...