Islamic funerals are community events that include group prayers for the deceased whose soul has gone to the afterlife and encouragement for the living. The funerals and burial happened quickly after...

Hospice care offers care to those in the last phases of an incurable condition that focuses on quality of life. When treating the patient to cure the disease if no long possible, caregivers focus on...

When someone of the Muslim faith dies, fellow Islamic believers gather together to offer prayers for the deceased's forgiveness. The prayers are the equivalent of Muslim funeral readings. Praying the...

Jewish funeral readings include prayers, a eulogy, and the reading of psalms. Traditional prayers and pslams recited at a Jewish funeral include the Mourner's Blessing, called “Mourner's Kaddish...

Christian funeral readings for both Catholic and Protestant denominations often come from the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible. The readings stress that Christians will be together with...

When attending a wake, viewing, or visitation at a funeral home or the family home, the rules of etiquette dictate what you should do, how you should dress, how long you stay, and what you say to the...