Fantastic and Forgotten Cemeteries of The South
I just moved to New Orleans, which we all know has amazing cemeteries, but what about the rest of the south? I have been keeping ...
Category: Funeral Customs
The World’s Most Famous Toilet Deaths: Hollywood stars, Japanese warlords and a South Carolina murderer
Earlier this week, a Kentucky woman glued herself to a toilet seat at Walmart, which got me thinking about toilets, and dying on them.
Dead at 33,000 feet: From the man who choked on airplane food to the teenager killed by other passengers
Imagine you are the only passenger in a small plane and suddenly the pilot keels over, dead. Such were the circumstances that befell an 80 ...
The lethal link between Japanese dolls and Viking sex slaves
A friend from Japan recently emailed to say she was taking a pilgrimage to the countryside to attend a “funeral of dolls”. Turns out two ...
Death by burning death by vulture, a look at dying in Tibet
Dorjee, an 18-year-old from the provincial town of Chara, set himself on fire yesterday then walked to a government office building and collapsed.
A history of hearses, plus the tale of the man who set Elvis’s hearse on fire
Recently a British reverend attached a custom sidecar to a Suzuki motorcycle and hit 120 miles per hour, setting what he claims is a record ...
In Vietnam grieving was once for years, now it’s on a website
In Vietnam, it is customary for grieving families to bring offerings like fake money, cognac and boiled chicken to the graves of their recently departed ...
Kid’s last wishes: Some feed the homeless, most go to Disney World
“On June 12th, 2011, I’m turning nine, and I found out that millions of people don’t live to see their 5th birthday,” Rachel Beckwith, of ...
The Shocking Secrets of Inca Child Sacrifice
Shocking child deaths were all over the news last week. A 6 year-old in Collinsville, Illinois dropped dead on the playground from a brain aneurism, ...
Amy Winehouse gets reincarnated as a butterfly, just like Steven Seagall and Shirley MacLaine
Did Amy Winehouse get reincarnated as a black butterfly and appear at her own funeral? Her father says yes.
Should people be buried with their pets?
Carol Mundy, of Cornwall, England already has her cemetery plot picked out. She wants to be buried beside her husband Robert, and Dylan, the couple’s ...
Mt. Everest, the world’s highest cemetery keeps growing
>>Related: Everest movie shows why the world’s highest cemetery keeps getting bigger. (9/16/2015) Peter Kinloch, a 28 year old IT specialist, had just summited Mt. Everest and ...
Inside the hot and noisy world of Taiwan’s Stripper Funerals
Have you ever been to a funeral where strippers dance on glowing flatbed trucks? Marc Moskowitz has. In fact, he has made a movie about ...
Animal Funerals, from Dorothy the Chimp to Yellow-billed Magpies
Dorothy’s mother was killed by hunters. They then sold her to an amusement park in Cameroon where she was chained to the ground and taught ...
Remembering Dr. Kevorkian’s suicide machines and other deliverance contraptions
We all know Jack Kevorkian was a doctor, but few know he was also a painter and a jazz composer; his 1997 CD, “The Kevorkian ...
