Stacey Dooley tackled death head-on in her latest documentary, Inside the Undertakers, and has been praised by viewers for shedding light on a not-often-discussed topic. The documentarian spent weeks ...

When a new-style missile is about to be fired at Florida’s Cape Canaveral, a small group of serious, weatherworn men examine it carefully. They learn how its parts fit together, what they are made of, ...

Durban - TOP funeral bodies have denied receiving a subsidy from the South African government and World Health Organisation (WHO) following the spread of a social media post. When the pandemic first ...

Funeral undertakers have threatened to embark on a nationwide shutdown of all department of home affairs offices from tomorrow because of the pinch small undertakers are feeling financially. This, ...

The country’s funeral directors are threatening to shut down the Department of Home Affairs head office in Pretoria on Tuesday, while disputing a statement from the department which announced a truce ...

EVERY minute more than 100 people die. Most of these deaths bring not just grief to some, but also profit to others. America’s 2.7m-odd deaths a year underpin an industry worth $16bn in 2017, ...

In Germany, Lutheran pastors are offering COVID-19 shots inside churches. In Israel’s science-skeptical ultra-Orthodox community, trusted rabbis are trying to change minds. And in South Africa, ...

Undertakers in South Africa are joining the effort to get members of their communities vaccinated against COVID-19. In early December, hearses began driving around the Soweto township of Johannesburg ...

IN England, the name Mitford is no doubt associated in most people’s minds with my sister Nancy’s novels and biographies. In America, like it or not (and I am not sure all the Mitfords will like it), ...

Larry Shaeffer got into the music business for three things: money, a car and girls. As a matter of fact, all of the members of his very first band got into music for those same three things. Now, the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...