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Undertakers' face cost of drunken coffin spillage
Stockholm :: Sweden | 4 days ago
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During the funeral, which took place in February 2008, they claim a number of undertakers were clearly drunk while being in charge of the coffin. As they approached the grave they are reported to have lost their grip which resulted in a heavy fall into...
Tags: Sweden, Stockholm, Dancing England Rapper Tournament, Death customs, Coffin, Funeral, Human Interest
Funeral fair opens door to eco-friendly exits
Arnold :: CA :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility No need for embalming fluids, mortuary wakes, fancy caskets and concrete vaults. Instead, a corpse can be propped up in bed at home to receive visitors one last time before returning to the earth, wrapped in a shroud or nestled in a biodegradable coffin....
Tags: funerals fair, Berkeley, Jerrigrace Lyons, Arnold, Embalming, Coffin, Natural burial, Burial, Death customs, Funeral, Cremation, Human Interest
You'll need to save up for a send-off
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 11 days ago
Credibility The average cost of a funeral has soared by 90 per cent over the past decade, primarily because local councils have stopped subsidising the cost of cremation fees. The cost of a standard funeral in Edinburgh, including director fees, a coffin, transfer,...
Tags: United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Cremation, Coffin, Burial, Scotland, Death customs, Funeral, Hearse, Human Interest
Bill Clinton and the White House
While speaking at a conference in Istanbul, the former US President Clinton remarked that he would have loved to leave the White House in a coffin implying that he would not have left unless death or elections took them apart. However, his indirect association...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, white house, coffin
Sick film news
The controversial film Nasty Splurty Brains will be handing out free sick bags at its premiere at the Abertoir Horror film festival in November the director Sid Sabbath said ‘I was worried that the audience might start to puke up, as a result of...
Tags: horror, giallo, slasher, stalker, psycho, guts, entrails, innards, death, coffin, blood bath, sick, vomit, hurl, comedy, funny, strange story
When a dead body moves
Wonders never cease to surprise us and, whenever an unusual incident is reported, we pause to think how little we know about the Almighty. Otherwise, how can a dead body move, how can the dead come back to life? People might dismiss it as an aberration...
When You're Feeling Boxed In...
“Man’s body cut to fit coffin.” Funny, in a gruesome sort of way. Straight out of Adams Family gruesome. But, no. Welcome to Allendale, NC — where it did, in fact, happen. Not to beat…erm, a dead...
Tags: coffin, love, prosecution, exhume, James Hines, Carolina, preacher, avariciousness, media, social responsibility, Cave Funeral Home, undertaker
The largest object ever made from the World's First Synthetic Plastic For Sale!
The Bakelite Coffin which as produced from the first ever synthetic plastic is now for sale and the auction is expected to generate Thousands of pounds. This Coffin is one of the only five Coffins ever produced and is considered to be the largest in size....
Tags: coffin, rare collections, worlds largest coffin from synthetic plastic
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