British musician Essy Sparrow talks about writing her song, "Weddings and Funerals" after receiving a wedding invitation from a former friend.

Queen Elizabeth II died at 96 on Thursday, ending her 70-year reign. Her funeral will be a complicated affair. The last royal funeral in the UK was for the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, in April ...

Funerals can be awkward. Funerals are often sad, but funerals for unbelievers are truly tragic. The loss of life is not merely temporal, but eternal. Naturally, a Christian might feel as those they ...

Death is seen as impure and conflicting with the essential purity of Shinto shrines. For the same reason, cemeteries are not built near Shinto shrines. The result of this is that most Japanese have ...

There are thirteen kings, four queens regnant, eleven queens consort (those married to a king) and two other queens buried in the Abbey making a total of thirty. When St Edward’s chapel was full, ...