Chen Jing Tomb-Sweeping Festival, which falls this year on April 5, is one of China’s most important traditional holidays. In the words of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) poet Gao Zhu, it is a time when the people busy themselves “offering sacrifices and cleaning tombs that scatter the hilltops.” But […]
Month: August 2026
India’s death care industry: An overview
Rishabh Jalan The only constant in this world is “change”; one such inevitable transition is our departure from this life. Even though many perceive the subject matter of death as taboo, everyone wishes to make the last journey of their loved ones special and memorable. India accounts for 17.7% […]
It’s never too early to plan to die
Death can arrive as a slow-moving steam engine that can be heard long before a fateful switch of the tracks directs it into our path. Death can also arrive as a semi-truck running a stop sign shrouded in fog and its screaming brakes are felt as they coincide with […]
‘You’re going to need a Ouija board to speak to Dad’: finance firms fail grieving families
Demands for an email from a deceased person, a mishmash of requests for paperwork and a sense that “we were the first people ever” to report a death. These are among the distressing experiences faced by Telegraph Money readers . A report, “The Cost and Bureaucracy of Dying”, from […]
Iceland’s president talks Big Tech, small languages and ‘digital death’ in Seattle visit
Facing an audience at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, Iceland’s president, Guðni Jóhannesson, asked Siri if she spoke Icelandic. Apple’s voice assistant didn’t have an answer for that. He turned instead to Embla, a prototype of similar speech recognition technology that is designed to show users what it […]