Local funeral home director Rob Loose’s column runs the first Saturday of each month. Contact him at Rob@LooseCares.com.

It's not uncommon for dogs to howl. It's instinctual, their way of communicating, getting attention, making contact with ...

A North East actress and entertainer who recently celebrated her 100th birthday and was one of the last links to a World WW2 ENSA has taken ...

Give your Halloween a celebratory vibe with an effervescent Pixar animation that sends its young musical hero into the ...

Pets are the family members who supply unconditional, uncomplicated love, and for many people, losing a pet comes with a somewhat ... acknowledge their profound loss and help them remember their ...

There are a number of options available to help aging pets and their caregivers, including hospice and palliative care, at-home euthanasia and a growing number of so-called pet death doulas. But ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

It's called “Faithful Unto Death: Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves and Eternal Devotion ... it will wait for us at the bridge,” ...

as the Lions defeated the Vikings 31-29 to hand their divisional rivals their first loss of the season. Lions head coach Dan Campbell has grown to expect those types of performances from the ...

No. 24 Michigan dropped to 4-3 on Saturday with a 21-7 loss to No. 22 Illinois, becoming the second reigning national champion in the last 30 years to lose three of its first seven games the ...

Psychologists who study the impact of pets' deaths on their owners say the feelings can resemble grief from losing friends or ...

Unlike Lal Ded’s language that was part of an oral tradition, Rupa Bhavani’s poetry was written, and ‘remained,’ says translator Neerja Matto, ‘the possession of the Kashmiri Pandit ...