Steve Metsch is a freelance reporter for the Naperville Sun. If you know of a business you’d like to see profiled in Down to ...

Six years ago, Kelly Avery and Kristin Harper, sisters from Birmingham, Ala., gathered their families by the sky-blue ocean waters of Destin, Fla., to memorialize their mother, Barbara Harper. They ...

Americans are increasingly choosing cremation over burial, making it the new norm for end-of-life practices, a funeral industry report finds. Demand for cremation — the disposal of a body using flame ...