A Seattle playwright is exploring his experience of living with, and dying from, a terminal illness in his latest production.

Dad kept a folder at home in his den with handwritten notes about his wishes for his own memorial. In the folder, he included favorite hymns, songs, poems and notes. He died in early February 2022, ...

A teenage boy was described as "talented, funny and smart" during his funeral in Co Derry on Wednesday, following his sudden death on Saturday. Peter Bell, a 14-year-old from Moneymore in Co Derry, ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

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 ...

If the hustle and bustle of the season is draining your holiday spirit, a few funny Christmas poems might be just what you need to bring back some jolly into your life! In fact, we have plenty of ...

"When your eulogy is being read with your life's actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?" asks Linda Ellis' poem "The Dash," which was read at ...

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 ...