The U.S. funeral industry is the most expensive and corporate in the world. Can Americans find a better way to grieve?

Photographer Norm Diamond examines what is left behind.

Minae Mizumura's "Inheritance From Mother" takes on aging, family, and Japan's complicated relationship with the West.

Why do so many women choose to wear the equivalent of a tailored sleeping bag?

What drives the partners of men who have died to try and have their babies? A journey into the fraught world of post-mortem sperm donation.

The final years of the series failed to deliver any substantial plot—what it gave us instead was time.

A Twitter conversation with data columnist Paul Ford

Exploring the Social Security administration’s list of America’s dead

Are you in it?

For decades, Americans have been increasingly distanced from the dead. A small group of women is working to change that.

There's nothing wrong with mourning celebrities online