ABCNEWS (ABC News: Top Stories) - Dolly Parton laid to rest in private Nashville burial
The Grand Ole Opry also honored the country music legend days after her death.
NYTIMES (Finbarr O’Reilly) - A Risky Burial in the Heart of an Ebola Outbreak
Safe interment is critical to containing the deadly disease, but in recent days around one Congolese town, that was not always being done.
DAILYCALLER (Mark Tanos) - Arkansas Teen Sailor Killed At Pearl Harbor Will Finally Be Laid To Rest After Nearly 85 Years
Luker Received A Long List Of Posthumous Decorations
STRIPES (Wyatt Olson) - 17-year-old sailor killed in 1941 Pearl Harbor attack to be buried with honors | Stars and Stripes
Royle Luker, who died at 17 aboard the USS West Virginia during the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, will be buried May 30 in his Arkansas hometown.
DAILYCALLER (Spencer Lombardo) - Human Composting Sites May Be Coming To A City Near You
'Shocking and surprising'
STRIPES (Gary Warner) - Remains of WWII Medal of Honor recipient buried at home after decades listed as ‘unknown’ | Stars and Stripes
Medal of Honor recipient Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi was buried more than 80 years after his death aboard a Japanese prisoner of war “hell ship.”
WAR (Katie Lange, David Vergun) - 80 Years After Death, Medal of Honor Recipient Identified, Buried
More than 80 years after his death, Medal of Honor recipient Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi's remains were identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, he was buried in his hometown alongside his parents and his sisters.
AXIOS (Carly Mallenbaum) - Death Cafe: Why strangers are talking about dying over tea
More strangers are gathering over cake and tea to chat — about dying. Why it matters: Death comes for all of us. Meetups known as Death Cafes help make talking about it less taboo. Catch up quick: The concept launched in 2011 in East London, according to the Death Cafe site . - Now, groups meet all over the world, in many types of settings. More than 11,000 are listed in the U.S. How it works: Death Cafes allow for "a tangible, factual, honest conversation around death," Aly Leija, 33, tells Axios. She's attended events virtually and in person in San Antonio. - After participants introduce themselves and share what brought them to the group, discussion topics range from mortality to cremation and burial options. Between the lines: A…
NYTIMES (Maria Varenikova, Evelina Riabenko and Oksana Parafeniuk) - The Soldier Who Came Back From the Dead
Told that Nazar Daletskyi had died, his Ukrainian family buried what they thought were his remains. He turned up three years later in a prisoner-of-war exchange.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Meg Hilling) - Marine killed in WWII accounted for after remains identified
Marine Corps Pfc. Norton V. Retzsch’s remains will be buried on April 13, 2026, in Marana, Arizona.