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Usan Kurata, managing director of Kunetai, a Japanese non-government organization working for the recovery of the soldiers� remains, said the bones had to be burned to appease their descendants...During the ceremony that was held Nov. 22, prayers were...
Tags: bone fragments, Philippines, Banaue, Burial, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Death customs, Ifugao, Cremation
On Oct. 27, 2009, Doris passed away at her home in Anthony at the age of 83. She was preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Wanda Blye. She will be missed by her nieces: Brenda Jones and husband, Mike, and Donita Hardin and husband, Gary; brother-in-law,...
Tags: Doris Ferguson, Anthony, Blye, Hospice care in the United States, Hospice, Funeral, Cremation, Death customs, Healthcare in the United States, Palliative medicine, Human Interest, Law Crime
The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 11/18/2009 08:38:31 PM MST Convinced the furnaces will not emit hair or smell, the Salt Lake City Planning Commission on Wednesday gave its unanimous approval for a zoning amendment that would allow a pet cremation service...
Tags: Salt Lake City, Incineration, Zoning, Death customs, Fire, Cremation
An Australian woman who has cancer said she will watch as her son's cremated remains are exhumed Tuesday, as she can no longer afford to pay for the plot. Jill Munday, 61, purchased a double plot at Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park in Fawkner, Victoria,...
Tags: Australian, Australia, Sydney, Munday Texas, Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park, Fawkner Victoria, Cremation, Law Crime
Mo. — A former central Missouri funeral home director has pleaded guilty to intentionally giving three families the wrong cremated remains. Seventy-seven-year-old Harold Warren Sr. pleaded guilty Monday to three felony charges of unlawful merchandising...
Tags: pleaded guilty, Seattle, Embalming, Death customs, Cremation, Funeral, Human Interest, Law Crime
A native of French Camp, Calif., she was born March 20, 1936, to Thomas and Dorothy Lowder Sherwood. She was an avid “Trekkie” and enthusiastically collected Star Trek memorabilia; additionally, she loved to go on family camping trips. Survivors include...
Tags: Concord, Funeral, Crematory, Treadway, Wigger, Death customs, Lowder, Cremation, Human Interest
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
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
While returning home, I was thinking about Fakir. My friend Fakir - whose corpse was burning behind at the crematorium. For those with raising eyebrows; Fakir was Muslim but he preferred fire to soil. To him there was no difference between Lord Shiva...
Tags: sushovan, sushovan chaudhuri, fakir, rani, mother, family, relatives, sleep, music, writing, muslim, fire, soil, marriage, death, love, honesty, lies, divorce, petition, cremation, crematorium, advocate
* Every person's tongue has an unique imprint *Ejaculation may cause a man to sneeze *Taking a nap at work is good for you *Our bodies make aspirin naturally *White skin has evolved over time, we were originally all black skinned *Our feet...
Tags: strange facts, body oddities, small intestine, cremation, orgasms, cancer, gas, blondes, memory, stomach, appendix, skin, feet, diarrhea, black skin, aspirin, taking naps, tongue