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 mass at St. Peter’s Basilica. ...
Category: Funeral Customs
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 VIP rooms, curved hallways lined ...
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, which has been in secret ...
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 hibiscus fiber crawls across a ...
Smuggling corpses into Iraq – Part I
On dark nights in the Zagros Mountains, along a border laced with mines, smugglers sneak into Iraq from Iran, carrying explosives, drugs and guns. Some ...
Walmart joins Wuyi and other weird web death vendors
What do Lady de Guadalupe, American Patriot and Executive Privilege have in common? They are casket models, now available on Wal-Mart’s website.
Magicians hope for Harry Houdini’s ghost to hack into their computers on Halloween
Every Halloween, a group that includes celebrities, master magicians, and ghost writers waits patiently for Harry Houdini to return from the grave. He hasn’t come ...
Michael Jackson and many grandmas will spend eternity as diamonds
Four year-old Rusty VandenBiesen was alone with the pictures of Jesus in the scary room at his grandmother’s when he burst into tears. His older ...
How Beethoven’s Skull got to San Jose
Beethoven died in his Vienna apartment on March 26, 1827. He was fifty-six; the cause of death was dropsy, an infectious disease common to fish. ...
Poor people not wanted in cemeteries
Putting the poor to rest in a sanctioned spot is common practice across the United States.
In one Appalachia town, pets never die
Naomi is a cat and has been curled in the same spot on her favorite couch for seven years.
Computerized bugles honor the dead, irk the living
“How could this be? Those who were courageous enough to fight and give their lives for our freedom honored with a tape player!” declares an ...
Californians Spend Afterlife Beneath The Ocean
“Facing west from California shores, inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the ...
Bury Me In A Uterus, Or A Ferrari
Pastor Williams Ofori-Attah’s Sunday sermon struck a chord his countrymen are all too familiar with, lavish funerary spending.
