How to be buried in a hot rod and sing at your own funeral
Life is a highway, and death can be too if you are buried in a Cruisin Casket.
Category: Funeral Customs
New York students find friend’s brain in jar, New Mexico family gets brain in the mail
Seventeen year old Jesse Shipley of Staten Island, New York died in a car crash in 2005. Three months later, on a field trip to ...
Australian church bans death metal, British company puts ashes in vinyl records
In May of 1859, a rowdy full-contact game that involves two teams battling each other for a ball that they try and rush down a ...
Foods of ancient funeral feasts: bull heads, auroch and spiced sheep
There were 70 cooked tortoises, three aurochs (a now-extinct species of giant cattle), a section of a leopard pelvis, some eagle wingtips and 28 human ...
Coffin Cartel tells Louisiana monks they can’t sell caskets
An embalming board referred to by critics as the Coffin Cartel has told Benedictine monk carpenters in the woods of Louisiana that they can’t sell ...
Houston’s giant flower of death and President Andrew Jackson both stunk
Thousands of people visited the Houston Museum of Natural Science last month to observe the slow birth and quick death of Lois, the pet name ...
The sad story of how to appear at your own funeral
Last month, Theodore “Pete” Peterson sat at a New Jersey bar with a vodka tonic in hand and an oxygen tank at his side. There ...
Japan’s mummy-monks rise again
Last week, police in Tokyo broke into the home of Sogen Kato. According to local records he was 111, the fifth oldest man on earth. ...
Stripper funerals in China, naked funeral directors in America
Cai Jinlai and his son Cai Ruigong had a bet; if Jinlai lived past 100 his son would hire a stripper for his funeral.
The sad slow death of female serial killers, from “Monster” to Mary Ann Cotton
Paul Sterling Smith is a convicted sex offender and the prime suspect in the murder of an auto shop owner in Missouri. Earlier this month, ...
Mock funerals for Sarah Jessica Parker and Saudi Arabian schoolboys
On a winter morning in New York City a handful of mourners gathered underground. They dressed in black with black armbands, hung their heads low ...
Build your own cremated remains rocket, just like Hunter S. Thompson
On Independence Day, about 200 people gathered at a remote lake in north-central Florida to see an old friend explode. They ate barbeque and corn ...
As the morbidly obese die, coffins change shape
Walter Hudson was the fourth most obese human in medical history. By age 12, he weighed 200 pounds and by age 33 his waist measured ...
Gary Coleman follows in the funeral-less footsteps of John Lennon
For Gary Coleman, fame was a burden. After the once well-known child actor died of a brain hemorrhage last month, his final wishes surfaced.
Lazarus Syndrome strikes a Brazilian drunk and a New Yorker named Mildred
While Ademir Jorge Goncalves and friends were drinking sugarcane liquor in a park in Santo Antonio de Platina, Brazil, a car crashed. The driver was ...
