Estate planning
Massachusetts expanding vaccine preregistration locations

Apr. 07, 2021 02:04 PM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts residents hoping to book COVID-19 vaccination appointments through the state website will have additional locations to choose from...

Senior Funeral Director Ben Blunt wipes down a limousine during a light snow fall outside Heritage & Sons Funeral Directors in Aylesbury, southern England, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Funeral home staff are under pressure in many places, but the burden is especially intense in Britain, where more than 115,000 people with the virus have died. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Pandemic takes a toll on exhausted UK funeral directors

By Jill Lawless And Jo Kearney Feb. 12, 2021 02:17 AM EST

Funeral director Andrew T. Cleckley poses for a portrait at his funeral home, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in the Flatlands neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. When the city was experiencing hundreds of coronavirus deaths a day, passersby reported a stench coming from rental trucks outside the facility in Brooklyn used to store an overflow of bodies. Authorities swept in and suspended his license in an episode that made headlines. Months later, Cleckley is fighting to keep his business.(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Mortician fights for license, livelihood after virus scandal

By Tom Hays Sep. 16, 2020 02:25 PM EDT

In this March 2020 photo provided by Edelman Financial Engines, Ric Edelman poses in his office in Fairfax, Virginia. (Liz Banfield/Edelman Financial Engines via AP)
Insider Q&A: Ric Edelman on managing money in a crisis

By Stan Choe Jun. 14, 2020 11:00 AM EDT

Beth Pardo and her daughter Zoe Ko view a burial service for Winifred Pardo via video conference, in Orefield, Pa., Wednesday, April 29, 2020. When 91-year-old Pardo died at last month, her family was in other states and couldn't be with her because of the coronavirus. So a Brooklyn funeral director turned to people in her own neighborhood for help. And people responded. One woman did some embroidery for the casket. Others sent over lilacs and daffodils. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Brooklyn neighborhood comes together to bury a stranger

By Julie Walker May. 01, 2020 01:57 PM EDT

A spanish UME (Emergency Army Unit) soldier drives into Madrid's ice rink turned into a temporary morgue due the COVID-19 crisis in Madrid, Spain, Monday, March 23, 2020. As cases in China ebbed, the dangers to Europe and the U.S. have grown exponentially, although Germany on Monday cautiously reported some flattening of its infection curve. More than 1.5 billion around the world have been told to stay in their homes. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause a more serious illness. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Where will the bodies go? Morgues plan as virus grows

Claudia Lauer And Jessica Gresko Apr. 04, 2020 03:00 PM EDT