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- Would you try virtual reality death?
  
  A team of scientists in Barcelona is using virtual reality to give people the experience of death. The experiment is designed to give participants an "out of body" experience in order to overcome fear of death.
- Yes, there really is a market for human bones.
  
  A week or so ago we ran across an article in an industry blog highlighting an interview with a top collector of human bones. Yes, human bones. As it turns out, there's a pretty big market out there.
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Celebrating CemeteriesView More
- Louisiana Flooding Is So Bad The Dead Are Coming Out Of The Ground, Again!
  
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  ... while the caskets float up out of their tombs at St. Mark’s Cemetery, in Livingston Parish, and in other cemeteries across southern Louisiana, the citizens of the state are out to help. And surely, when the waters finally settle, there will be people to volunteer for that one additional odd but essential job: Putting the dead back in the ground.
- Colma, California: City of Souls
  
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  Colma, California is home to some 1.5 million residents--most of them residing in cemeteries. The town claims just 1,400 living residents. The rest belong to the 16 cemeteries that call Colma home.
Tales from the CryptView More
- Number of female funeral directors continues to increase.
  
  By: Funeralwise | Date: August 24, 2015
- Cemetery and funeral home weddings are becoming a trend as the industry looks to expand its offerings.
  
  By: Funeralwise | Date: July 20, 2015
- Chinese caskets proving to be a hard sell.
  
  By: Funeralwise | Date: February 27, 2015

Searching for Eternal Life in a Chinese Cave, Or a Florida Spring

Step aside Juan Ponce de León, the long-sought secret to longevity may not be a mysterious Florida spring, but a Chinese cave. Read on to learn more.

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These monkey mothers actually carry around the corpses of their young

By: Justin Nobel | Date: March 13, 2017

Imagine a new mother walking down a sunny sidewalk in a big city. She has a coffee in one hand, a bag over her shoulder, and swaddled at her chest is an infant. She is happy. She is going about her daily routine. The only thing strange about the scene: the infant is dead. Read on...