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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

The Media Is Obsessed with Florida’s Nursing Home Deaths—The Real Problem Is We’ve Abandoned the Elderly
The news was devastating, and it came in dribs and drabs. First there were three dead. Then five. Then seven. The tally now rests at eight. They are five women and three men. They died inside a sweltering nursing home in Hollywood,

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Hurricane Harvey "Lonely Deaths"
By: Justin Nobel | Date: September 4, 2017
One of the people who died alone in Hurricane Harvey was 89 year old Agnes Stanley, a longtime volunteer for a conservation group in Houston. She died in her one-story brick home, the New York Times reported, and was found floating in four feet of floodwater.
The Transgender Cemetery Struggle
By: Justin Nobel | Date: August 16, 2017
At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio last year, Texas Senator Ted Cruz made a powerful and inflammatory statement. “As we all know, transgender people die of AIDS often,” said Cruz. “They are being buried next to our righteous brothers and sisters of the church...We need to create a spot in the back of the cemetery for them to be laid to rest where they cannot taint our Christian brethren in their eternal rest.” Read on...
Just How Many People Will Climate Change Kill?
By: Justin Nobel | Date: July 12, 2017
This year has already seen heat so hot in Phoenix, Arizona that commercial jets were unable to fly. In Tulare County, California heat buckled train tracks, causing a cargo train to derail. And in Antarctica, a melting ice sheet is about to produce an iceberg the size of Delaware. Along with the heat—and changing weather patterns—comes death.