Hungry Hungry Ghosts – Celebrating The Chinese Halloween
There is no Halloween in China, complained one recent traveler. But there is the Hungry Ghost Festival! Celebrated on the 15th night of the seventh ...
Category: Funeral Customs
The Spectacular Death Rituals of the Philippines
Hanging coffins, kitchen burials, blindfolded corpses, tree trunk burials and coffin hexes, oh my. Tourists flock to the Philippines for the beaches, the food and ...
The 5 Best Places to See Art Made From Dead People’s Hair
Need a cheap end of summer getaway, why not visit a hair museum? In Victorian times, human hair was woven into wreaths and other ornamental objects. ...
In Asia, Lying in Coffins Helps You Live Longer
The name of the event was “Experience Being Placed in a Coffin”. You drink beer, eat snacks, and talk about death. Then you lie down in ...
How To Avoid Being Struck By Lightning This Summer – An Interview With Dr. Lightning
During the 1940s lightning killed several hundred people a year in the U.S., in recent years annual lightning fatalities have dropped to below 40 people. ...
One Texas Woman’s Struggle To Open The Country’s First Art Gallery Funeral Home
Imagine a funeral home that also served as an art gallery. At a service you might watch the deceased’s favorite movie, or listen to a ...
Did You Know You Can Die By Overdosing On Water?
Earlier this year, a 29-year-old British engineer named Matthew Ellis went into a coma after drinking seven liters of water.
Funerary Towers Of The World Unite
What’s the most interesting object I saw at the New Orleans Museum of Art? A 2,200 year old model found in a Chinese tomb.
The Last Funeral Director on Earth – Profile of a Man Burying Bodies in Syria
He has buried more than 234 bodies from the river. Most are men and boys, their hands bound behind their backs, their skulls broken by ...
Four Ancient Weapons Much Scarier Than a Gun
As the gun control debate heats up, Digital Dying decided to take a look at a handful of more ancient weapons and just how they ...
The Mayan Sport That Makes Football Look Lame – Losers Actually Got Decapitated
Sunday is the Super Bowl, the culminating game in a sport that involves teams of men tackling each other into the ground as they try ...
The Truth About the Korean Phenomenon of “Fan Death”
Do you sleep with a fan on? While ceiling and floor fans are regarded as a great way to beat the heat here in the ...
The Best Real Life Zombie Halloween Costumes, From Pete the Marsh Man to Juanita the Ice Maiden
Zombies are still huge and this year stores are offering numerous variations on the traditional zombie Halloween costume. There is the zombie doctor outfit, the ...
Sleeping with Skeletons and Dressing Up Skulls, Halloweens Across the World
A house across the street from me has a miniature warlock looking creature standing out front, their porch is covered in cobwebs. Another home has ...
How Napoleon’s “Death Mask” got to New Orleans
The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is buried in a crypt in Paris but if you want to see his “death mask” you need only go ...
