Service Corporation International (SCI) is the dominant player in the North American funeral home and cemetery business. The ...

This combo file photo shows the hanging coffin remains found in Zhaotong, Southwest China's Yunnan province. [Photo/Xinhua] KUNMING -- A Chinese-led study has uncovered a genetic lineage linking the ...

Critics have called them ‘creepy’ and ‘dystopian’. But residents tell Io Dodds that they’re nothing of the sort — and ...

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For millennia, an ethnic group in what's now southwest China placed their dead in "hanging coffins" on cliffsides, but their identity has long eluded researchers. Now, a new genetic study reveals that ...

IT takes courage to fly, whether as a pilot (or as a passenger) in a metal coffin, assembled, as the astronaut Alan Shepherd put it, “from hundreds of parts supplied by the lowest bidder”. It took ...

Archaeologists have shined fresh light on the mystery behind China’s hanging coffins. It seems there could be a direct genetic link between ancient practitioners of the hanging coffin burial tradition ...

A new study has uncovered a direct genetic link between ancient practitioners of the Hanging Coffin burial tradition and the modern Bo people in Southwest China. The findings published in Nature ...

Coffins are now too large to be cremated, funeral directors have claimed, in the latest sign of Britain’s growing obesity epidemic. Funeral directors said that in addition to ordering wider caskets ...