One heartbreaking reality of COVID-imposed social distancing includes funerals via Zoom. First, you are not mourning alone. Physical distance does not necessarily equate to emotional distance. I have ...

A homegoing celebration for a family in Fayetteville turned into a nightmare when someone hacked the Zoom feed of the funeral service and replaced it with inappropriate images. Family and friends had ...

Amid the quarantinis, the kids crawling over laptops, and the dog walks, we are losing sight of a picture we don’t want to see. People are still dying. Death is scary. And it happens to other people.

Early in the pandemic, science writer Jack El-Hai attended his first Zoom funeral. El-Hai lives in Minneapolis, and the service was in New Jersey, but what unfolded will be familiar to anyone who has ...

For anyone, planning a funeral for a loved one who has passed isn't easy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, planning a funeral under shelter-in-place restrictions can make things even harder. "I had ...

Jim Cohen is a fourth-generation funeral director. His family’s Feldman Mortuary has been at the corner of East 17th Avenue and York Street in Denver since 1939, specializing in services that adhere ...

The unexpected death of a friend and colleague to COVID-19 in January 2021 led me to start researching how American death rituals were transforming during the pandemic. My friend was Hindu, and while ...

I waited outside the main office building of Beth Moses Cemetery in Long Island. It was a bright, cold day. I’d been there many times before. Normally the spot is a swirl of activity, with cars ...