Funeral Customs

Birds of war bring peace at funerals

“Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here.” (more…)

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Broken heart syndrome: induced by stress, or a divine hand?

Upon finding his lover lifeless in a crypt, a young man guzzles a vile of poison. (more…)

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Coming soon to Brit TV: Enema a la Tut

A British TV show is currently searching for a terminally ill patient to embalm. (more…)

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The blooming business of deciphering supercentenarians

Mighty Joe Rollino was struck by a minivan while crossing the street in Brooklyn earlier this month. (more…)

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Mass graves saved Venice but are they right for Haiti?

Dead bodies from Haiti’s earthquake are being piled into dump trucks and unloaded in mass graves outside Port-au-Prince. (more…)

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Black at funerals: a two millennia-old trend, re-popularized by stuffy British women

“Wear Black in sunlight and you will roast as the Heat VIBRATIONS absorb easily. Hence Black is the most absurd…

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Pope Benedict XVI survived but strange and ghastly papal murder goes back 2,000 years

A mentally unstable woman in a bright red coat jumped a barrier and tackled Pope Benedict XVI during Christmas Eve…

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Out of space, Asia shoves their dead into futuristic tubes

From the outside, it looks like a downed spacecraft and a Las Vegas casino on the inside. There are red-carpeted…

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In space, cheaper to be dead than on Virgin

On a stormy December night in the middle of the Mojave Desert, SpaceShipTwo was unveiled. The sleek Virgin Galactic craft,…

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World’s longest funeral, on a cramped cargo ship in the middle of the Pacific

The rumble of a ship’s engine is pierced by a human wail. A topless woman in a skirt woven from…

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