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Frozen Dead Guy and how he started a festival.

Each year some 15,000 people flock to Nederland to celebrate The Frozen Dead Guy, Grandpa Bredo Morstoel. Why?

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Nursing Home Robots Will Bathe And Hug You

Think having a robot take care of you in old age sounds far fetched? Think again. In Japan it's a…

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TED Talks about death and dying can inspire us to plan for the inevitable.

TED Talks about death and dying offer rich narratives that can help us start thinking about what is truly inevitable.…

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David Bowie, And The Art of Dying

Can a person transform their death into an artistic statement? Can a person envision their own death in such a…

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As Winter Ends, Slavic School Kids Welcome the Drowning of Marzanna

The Spring Equinox, and the rebirth it represents has inspired some of humankind's most colorful celebrations. In fact, it stands…

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Donald Trump Burned in Effigy in Mexico

The Carnaval parade in Chapala, Mexico is a grand colorful affair, and this year a new character livened up the…

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Making Resinous Replicas of Dead People: Wax Museums of the World

Do wax sculptures in their current form represent an artistic way to remember and honor the dead—and those that will…

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National Wear Red Day® – Friday, February 5, 2016

When we think of heart disease we usually think of it as a man's problem. For women, the focus is…

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Bacteria and Death-Using the Necrobiome To Help Solve Crime

Researchers believe that studying microbial successions, or the sequence in which microbial communities in a corpse proliferate over time, will…

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When Hollywood Actors Crawl Out Of Tombs – The Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprio and the Six Strangest Buried Alive Movies of All Time

Leonardo DiCaprio's amazing turn at being buried alive in "The Revenant" made us here at Funeralwise wonder about other great…

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