Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.

Will McGough thought he’d scatter his father’s ashes in Antarctica for a special tribute. But once there, he learned that ...

The idea of spreading ashes on a trip is popular enough that Carnival Cruise Lines has its own scattering service, where a private event is arranged for families to partake in a burial at sea.

Cemeteries and graves are more than sombre resting places - they serve as poignant landmarks where visitors can pay tribute ...

A DAFFODIL named after a Stockton woman who married into a Darlington family of bankers is in the Royal Horticultural Society ...

With none of the crowds but much of the mystique of Jordan's Petra facades, Hegra is a history-rich highlight in newly accessible Saudi Arabia In 1845, theologian John William Burgon wrote one of the ...

The song follows the pattern of Sea Surface Full of Clouds, a poem by Wallace Stevens ... The site used to be the city's primary burial ground and may contain as many as 10,000 bodies, some ...

In a poem titled Bombay, Joshi speaks of the “per square feet rate for burial”. In 1988, he published his collection ... One story, of a small girl Tina, who fills the Mumbai sea in her pot, and ...

A sea of black, dappled with the canary-yellow flags of the Party ... After a series of rousing speeches, poetry recitals and religious anthems, two coffins draped in yellow silk emerged from a ...