New York City’s Marble Cemetery has contained the remains of Preserved Fish, a nineteenth century whale oil tycoon, Marinus Willet, a Revolutionary War hero and John Lloyd Stephens, a...
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As the morbidly obese die, coffins change shape
Walter Hudson was the fourth most obese human in medical history. By age 12, he weighed 200 pounds and by age 33 his waist measured 119 inches (a Guinness...
To leave your body, walk straight with the dead and beware of Jenny Burn-Tail
Gita Jarrant’s 91 year-old husband Willi was wearing sunglasses and seated in a wheelchair when security officials at Liverpool Airport noticed he was dead.
Burying the forgotten soldiers of bygone wars
Thomas Rice’s chopper went down deep in the jungles of South Vietnam just before dawn on December 28, 1965. Several missions retraced his route but the helicopter was never...
Burning Viagra in China to stimulate the dead
Next month, millions of Chinese will head to cemeteries to burn Viagra, brandy bottles, toiletries, tweed shoes, stiletto heels, credit cards, cosmetics, exotic potions, common pain relievers, camcorders, rice...
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.
Mob funerals: gold coffins, pimped-out rides and mayhem, from Brooklyn to Trinidad
With a heavy police presence and a bevy of gawking onlookers, a golden coffin was carried through the streets of Montreal’s Little Italy neighborhood earlier this week.
Smuggling corpses into Iraq – Part II
In the summer of 2004, the Mahdi Army battled U.S. troops in Wadi al-Salam, one of the largest cemeteries on earth.
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 harbor items much more...
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 back yet, but this...
Teaching Death to Immortals
Writing an obituary was their first assignment and next month Professor Marla Toyne’s students will visit a cemetery.
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.
For body snatchers, business has been booming for 500 years
“The activity engaged in by this funeral director was utterly repulsive,” reads a recent newspaper article.
“The Cemetery Woman”: Collector of Death, Book Coming Soon
In Helen Sclair’s dining room are coffins: one from the 1940s fit for a baby, a wicker model from the 1920s and a Civil War-era pine casket.
