Day of the Dead Takes on the World
The day after Halloween, and the day after that, is Day of the Dead, and the ancient festival, to use a modern word, is trending.
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Life in America’s Only Airbnb Cemetery House is Awesome
On Airbnb you can stay in a Mongolian yurt, on the side of a volcano, or in any number of houseboats, but there appears to ...
“The Deathbed Poet” – How One Man Makes Poems of Life’s Last Hours
Michael Gaspeny knows secrets. He knows lives. He knows what makes people smile, and what makes them sin. He knows what makes people tick, and ...
As I Lay Dying…Some Awful Relative Stole My Home!
Could an awful relative steal your home? It's more common than you think. Here is an awful story I heard recently.
Weekly News 12/21/15: The transgender funeral struggle.
New on the blog this week: The transgender funeral struggle. The Transgender Funeral Struggle – A Report From the Frontier of Sexual Identity and Death: Earlier this ...
How Much Death is Too Much Death? A Visit to New Orleans’ Newly Opened Museum of Death
Speaking from behind the welcome counter, on which sits a tall jar of teeth, a sheep skull and a photo of a dismembered human being ...
New Orleans Death Talk: Decatur Street Artist Blue Fletcher
Blue Fletcher, Decatur Street Artist, French Quarter "My name is Blue. I think about death constantly. My husband died last November and we’re coming up on ...
Weekly News 7/31/2015: Louisiana theater shooting victims laid to rest
This week we said goodbye to the two women who lost their lives in the Louisiana theater shooting. We also learned of a German woman ...
Strange deaths 2015 mid-year check-up: Selfie deaths keep coming.
We normally save our strange death report for the end of the year, but with two men meeting their maker while shooting fireworks off their ...
Weekly News 7/3/2015: Tama the stationmaster cat elevated to goddess
If you like the unusual then don't miss the story of the Japanese stationmaster cat, Tama. So revered was this famous feline that on her ...
Sleeping in Cemeteries: In Hard Times, People around the World Choose to Live Among the Dead
Bratislav Stojanovic wakes up every morning in a tomb. For 15 years the Serbian man has been sleeping in a cemetery in the city of ...
“Exquisite Corpse” celebrates Woodlawn Cemetery’s jazz legacy.
There are a lot of notable people buried in New York City's Woodlawn Cemetery. The 400-acre cemetery is the final resting place to some 300,000 ...
Weekly News 6/5/2015: Beau Biden death and Swedish “death test”
Topping this week's news was the news of Beau Biden's death, word of a Swedish "death test," and the laying to rest of the Savopoulos ...
Strange Deaths 2014: The Year of Death by Selfie
>>Strange Deaths 2015: Another big year for selfie deaths. This year’s edition of strange deaths reveals a disturbing trend—death by selfie. We found 10 confirmed instances ...
