Several hundred people, including top politicians and family members, attended the funeral on Friday for the late German statesman Wolfgang Schäuble. The former interior and finance minister shaped ...

Coffin or urn? If you die in Germany, you will probably end up in a box in a public cemetery. Like it or not. The nation has some of the strictest funeral laws in western Europe. Now there's a ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, former chancellor Angela Merkel, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and other German officials attend the funeral in Berlin of Holocaust survivor Margot ...

New German laws in two states now permit the creation of memorial diamonds from a person's ashesSoeren Stache/ZB/picture alliance The German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt have ...

Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt have updated burial laws, allowing river burials, home urns, and memorial diamonds. These changes reflect evolving social attitudes towards mourning and ...