Revenge killings, from Pakistan to Palestine to Papua New Guinea
He killed nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11 2001, earlier this month we killed him, ten days after that his followers attacked recruits at a ...
Category: Funeral Customs
The history of manhunts, from Sabbah the Assassin to Yahya the Engineer
Killing Osama bin Laden involved an especially massive manhunt but it’s not the first time such effort has been put into eliminating a single man. ...
Will Osama bin Laden get 72 Virgins? A talk with an Islam death expert
Osama bin Laden’s body was placed on a flat board and slid into the sea, was that the proper thing to do? Will he attain ...
China vs Egypt for “World’s Most Beautiful Mummy” distinction
Xiaohe is a beauty; she has long eyelashes, a button nose, auburn hair that falls across her shoulders, and has been dead for 3,800 years.
A flash flood reveals the secret world of Amish funerals
The Amish keep their death rituals private, but last month reporters were able to peek into this world after a terrible horse-drawn buggy accident in ...
New green burial method mimics recipe of infamous British “Acid Bath Murderer”
Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak has developed a new way to bury human bodies. First, freeze them with liquid nitrogen, then, use mechanical vibrations to shatter them into ...
Burning bodies outside becomes popular in Colorado, has roots in Bali
Belinda Ellis got her wish, upon death her body was covered in red cloth and laid atop a rectangular steel grate inside a brick hearth. ...
If you control the funeral you control the revolution
As the Middle East erupts in protest, funerals have served as the flashpoint. On Tuesday in Bahrain 10,000 mourners gathered in a hospital parking lot ...
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 spiritual guide called a pointer ...
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 sand then collided head-on with ...
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.
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.
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 a press release posted on ...
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 been stealing brass urns from ...
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 an angry bitter old mountain ...
