The city’s main burial ground, which dates back to 1859, is expected to become full within seven years, Wakefield Council has ...

On 20 acres in the far northwest corner of Panorama Farms in Earlysville, the dead are laid to rest without metal caskets or concrete vaults or embalming chemicals.

Archaeologists have already started exhuming the approximately 275 plots, and some of the remains of tenant farmers ...

Conservation works have officially commenced at the historic mosque and cemetery in Tochni, the UNDP said in a post on X, hailing the project as “a crucial step in preserving the cultural and ...

Eleven-year-old Michael Carey was the first person to be buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, the most famous place to be laid to rest in Ireland. On this day, February 22, 1832, the first burial was ...

The Advocate reports that a retired New York neurologist is fighting to lay his late husband to rest after a Long Island cemetery allegedly refused to allow the burial in the family’s designated ...

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When Mark Goldberg's husband David died last September at the age of 75, Goldberg wanted to bury him in one of his family's five plots at New Montefiore Cemetery, a Jewish graveyard in the town of ...

A New York widower is fighting back after a cemetery reportedly refused to bury his husband in their family burial plot, claiming the denial was based on their same-sex marriage. According to The ...

A suburban New York cemetery blocked a grieving widower from burying his husband in their chosen gravesite because he was gay, alleges a heartbreaking legal filing obtained by The Independent.

Mark Goldberg’s family owns five burial plots at New Montefiore Cemetery, the middle two of which are presently unoccupied, according to a summons served late last month on the Jewish graveyard ...