Coffins decked out with board games, gravesites doubling as vegetable patches or children's toy "funeral building bricks" complete with a hearse and crematorium -- just some of the latest trends for ...

The Dutch are a pragmatic people about many things, not least of all about death. For many of them, that means planning ahead – and taking out insurance to pay for the cost of their funeral. Not ...

The number of funeral directors has grown by 67% in the last 10 years to a total of 3,100, figures from the chamber of commerce (KvK) have shown. In particular, more women are opting to set up their ...

Egeria has completed its acquisition of AEGON‘s Dutch funeral insurance business for €212 million. Egeria is a Dutch investment group. AEGON decided to sell the Dutch funeral insurance business as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 3,500 visitors flocked to a recent one-day expo at Amsterdam's historic central Westerkerk church for a peek at new ...

An Amsterdam expo presented new ideas for dealing with death. Image: michellegibson/Istock.com via AFP Coffins decked out with board games, gravesites doubling as ...