Prague, Budapest and Vienna have each undergone a great renewal the past 20 or so years. Now their beautiful blend of the old and the new makes them popular tourist destinations. Yet they are still haunted by their past – not the medieval past, but the more recent past. World War II and the subsequent Soviet occupation still cast a shadow on these cities.
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Weird News: The strange lure of burial grounds.
Are you a taphophile? While some find it an odd hobby, there is a group of people who are obsessed by cemeteries.
How Do You Feel About Being Turned Into Compost When You Die?
Would you want to be turned into compost when you die? You may soon have that option. With her Urban Death Project, designer Katrina Spade has been working on a greener alternative for...
Funeral home updates facility to match new customs
Today's funeral services often include a variety of high tech features as well as full catering. The Houston Chronicle explores one local company's effort to provide state of the art services to its customers.
Funerary Towers Of The World Unite
What’s the most interesting object I saw at the New Orleans Museum of Art? A 2,200 year old model found in a Chinese tomb.
Death and Dying in Chalmette – Touring the Battle of New Orleans
A major American battle occurred just a mile from my home, earlier this week I visited the old battlefield.
Famous Hobos and their Sad Deaths, from Alexander Supertramp to T Bone Slim
This past August the 112th National Hobo Convention was held in Britt, Iowa. A friend of mine attended the event in true hobo style, that is, by riding freight...
Solving Murders and Sculpting Skulls, Interview with a Forensic Artist
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 recognition it is Anderson...
Skull Stealing and Cemetery Skyscrapers, Interview with Colin Dickey, the Guru of Graveyard
Colin Dickey has written about the history of cemeteries, library bone collections, and the afterlives of the saints.
Interview with a Vampire Expert
Think you know vampires just because you watch Twilight or True Blood? Think again.
Interview with the world’s very first funeographer
Priscilla Etienne runs a London-based company called Funeography that takes professional photos at funerals.
Have you considered “grief tourism” in your holiday travel plans?
People come to Paris for the food, the museums, and the shops, but also for the cemeteries. There is the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, which opened in 1804 and receives more...
Should people be buried with their pets?
Carol Mundy, of Cornwall, England already has her cemetery plot picked out. She wants to be buried beside her husband Robert, and Dylan, the couple’s 17 year old golden...
America’s richest dog dies while China’s has just been born
In 2007, real estate tycoon Leona Helmsley died of heart failure, leaving explicit instructions on what to do with her $4 billion fortune: the bulk would go into a...
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 a million pieces.
