Charles Peden is a pet medium, aka animal communicator. He makes his living by communicating with dead pets (and also lost and misbehaving ones). He ...
In 1910, Frank Stewart Jr.’s grandfather was deeded a piece of property he couldn’t sell. It was a cemetery, and he decided to keep it ...
During the 1940s lightning killed several hundred people a year in the U.S., in recent years annual lightning fatalities have dropped to below 40 people. ...
According to the Cremation Association of North America some 42 percent of Americans are now getting cremated, might this mark the beginning of the downfall ...
Imagine a funeral home that also served as an art gallery. At a service you might watch the deceased’s favorite movie, or listen to a ...
I went to lift one of the pigs out of the garment, I put my hand under its back and was holding a spinal cord...
A few years ago Pia Interlandi dressed and buried 21 pigs in order to learn more about how garments decompose in the grave.
Not only is there a company called Skulls Unlimited International, they even have their own museum!
What do Rasputin’s penis, Shelley’s heart and Einstein’s brain have in common?
JD Healy and Cathee Shultz once built their own guillotine. The couple now runs the Museum of Death, in Los Angeles.
Barbara Anderson has spent more than two decades working as a forensic artist for police departments in California. When a body is found rotted beyond ...
Colin Dickey has written about the history of cemeteries, library bone collections and the afterlives of the saints.
Think you know vampires just because you watch Twilight or True Blood? Think again.
Is it really possible to float above your own body? Does consciousness live on after we die? Are all our brains and the entire universe ...
Does being reminded about death lead to hatred, killing and war? Does it make you want to buy a Lexus? Did George Bush win reelection ...
Funeral related questions & answers for a modern world.
