Funeral Customs

Among Hmong, death is a long journey back to the womb

Vang Pao’s funeral will continue for six days straight and feature animal sacrifices, the burning of paper offerings and a…

13 years ago

A fight over how to display roadside death

A man driving a van packed with mourners returning from a funeral in northern India crashed through a mound of…

13 years ago

Americans are most likely to die on Christmas

Christmas brings gifts, twinkling lights, eggnog, and according to a recent article in the Social Science & Medicine journal, death.…

13 years ago

The Mysterious Death of Henry Hudson

http://funeralwise.wistia.com/medias/r2y5cgpq7v?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=780 Digital Dying travels to upper Quebec to uncover the mystery surrounding the death of famous explorer Henry Hudson.

13 years ago

Gruesome toddler deaths and that wacky church

The controversial Kansas church that has been picketing soldier funerals has an unusual new target, children. “God Hates Oklahoma,” reads…

13 years ago

Stealing urns for scrap metal money

Charles Rayburn discovered a way to turn ash to gold. For half a year the central Tennessee cemetery worker had…

14 years ago

Legend of The Bleeding Corpse

In 1818 in the Scioto Valley of southwestern Ohio, there one hot summer day occurred a murder trial that involved…

14 years ago

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. (more…)

14 years ago

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,…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago