Category Archives: Funerals, Burials and Cremations
John Burns on Britain’s Oldest Warrior He was a 19-year-old private when he was struck by the burst of a German shell over the British trenches in September 1917 and sent home to recover from his wounds. Working as a plumber in Wells until his retirement, he lived to the age of 111 before he [...]
In the southern part of Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri, lies 2200 acres with 120 earthen mounds that’s been designated a National Historic Site and a World Heritage Site. Cahokia Mounds is the largest prehistoric earthen construction in the Americas, the last remnants of an American Indian people called the [...]
From Richard Fernandez The city ground to a halt. Ships sounded their mournful horns at harbor. Bells rang and millions stood in the rain along the 14 mile route to the cemetery. Former Philippine Ambassador to the Vatican Howard Dee said: “I was in Magsaysay’s and Ninoy’s funeral. This is the greatest outpouring of love [...]
Bodies stack up as California counts cost of funerals Bodies left unclaimed, cadavers stacked high in morgues and burial rates tumbling as loved ones cut funeral costs: the crippling recession is even haunting the dead across the United States. In Los Angeles, the local coroner’s office has witnessed an unprecedented spike in the number of [...]
Advocates say the number of home funerals, where everything from caring for the dead to the visiting hours to the building of the coffin is done at home, has soared in the last five years, putting the funerals “where home births were 30 years ago,” according to Chuck Lakin, a home funeral proponent and coffin [...]
Continuing on my Michael Jackson-free theme, here’s some oddities you may have missed. Two Mexican Midget Wrestlers Killed by Fake Prostitutes Mexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a low-rent hotel in the capital may have been drugged to death by female robbers. Autopsies are being performed on the two midget wrestlers, one [...]
Colorful Tombstones in Chichicastenango, Guatemala photo by Susan Hardman
What chutzpah Iran charges slain man’s family $3,000 for bullets that killed him The family of an Iranian man killed in a demonstration against the country’s contested presidential election has been ordered to pay the equivalent of $3,000 for the bullets that took his life, according to The Wall Street Journal. Kaveh Alipour, 19, was [...]
Neda Agha Soltan, a 27-year-old student of philosophy, became known around the world in a matter of hours through Twitter, Facebook and YouTube because a video captured her death on a street in Tehran Neda falls in the street, shot in the heart by a Basiji sniper. She is laid down by her companions when [...]
Private William Long, newly out of basic training was on a short-term assignment as a military recruiter, was shot three times and killed outside the Army-Navy Career Center in Little Rock Arkansas by a domestic jihadist who also wounded another soldier. The alleged killer Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, was born in Tennessee as Carlos Leon [...]
