Far from the macabre Halloween-adjacent holiday many outsiders imagine, Day of the Dead represents one of humanity's most beautiful approaches to mortality: transforming loss into celebration, grief ...

Katy Garrett grew up knowing that if she ever got married, the two people she wanted there most wouldn’t be in the room. Her father died of cardiac arrest when she was 5, and her mother died from ...

The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Ángel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in 2010, need only follow the trail of ...

This weekend, Mexican American families across the U.S. will gather to honor their ancestors with altars, marigolds and sugar skulls on Dia de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead. In recent years, the ...

The Days of the Dead are happening this weekend and you will probably observe ancient rituals in some way. But do you really know what they are and where they come from? Everyone knows the secular ...