Growing up, death was a dinner table conversation at our house almost every night, because my dad was an estate planning ...

Reading a poem in the Lithuanian Heritage Museum brought tears to the eyes of Mary Gwasdytos, whose grandparents emigrated to the coal region in the late 1800s. “It is amazing,” said Gwasdytos, 78, a ...

Jason Morphew is not exactly a household name in his home state, though he probably ought to be. He's one of those curious sons of Arkansas who somehow broke orbit -- Yale, UC Davis, UCLA -- and never ...

Anne Nolan has tearfully shared part of a poem that was read out at sister Linda Nolan's funeral over the weekend. Good Morning Britain welcomed Anne on Monday, who spoke about laying her sister to ...

Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep was once voted Britain's favourite poem - PjrTravel/Alamy Stock Photo You probably know the piece of verse that begins “Do not stand at my grave and weep, / I am not ...

To mark the December 10 birthday of Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), today we offer our readers an emblematic Dickinson poem: a poem about death. Reading Dickinson, we can readily feel that for every poem ...

Funeral poems possess the remarkable ability to articulate the complex web of emotions we feel when we lose someone dear to us. They provide a touch of comfort, helping us say our goodbyes in a way ...