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Bodies from Green River Cemetery in MA To Be Exhumed and Reburied
Thanks to some strong winds that uprooted trees and washed away several yards of soil back in March, about 50 bodies are in danger of sliding 200 feet into the Green River below.
View PostBiomedical Supply House Owners Charged with Selling Body Parts For Transplants
Earlier this year, a biomedical supply house and three others were charged with selling body parts to the tune of millions of dollars. They’d obtain bodies from funeral parlors in New York City, Rochester, Philadelphia and New Jersey and then forge death certificates and organ donor consent forms to sell the organs. Prosecutors said that [...]
View PostNew Victorian-Inspired Cemetery To Be Built at Wilbury Hills
The North Hertfordshire district council has comissioned Michael Howe and his architechture firm, Mae, to design a new ‘flagship’ cemetery at Wilbury Hills, on the edge of Letchworth in the UK.
View PostActs of Vandalism at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Fitchburg, MA
It’s amazing how little respect some people have for the dead. The Boston Globe reports that last month, a group of vandals toppled over 90 headstones at historic Laurel Hill Cemetery in Fitchburg, MA. A photo on the Boston Globe site shows a limestone Civil War memorial lying on its side.
View PostElaborate Cemetery Mausoleums are Back in Style
If you ever get the chance to walk through one of the historical garden cemeteries like Laurel Hill in Philly or Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, you’ll find all sorts of elaborate mausoleums and memorials. But some time ago, that went out of fashion for simpler tombstones.
View Post$25000 Will Buy You A Pet Cemetery In Missouri
If you’ve ever wanted to own a pet cemetery, now’s your chance. Cedar Hills Pet Cemetery is for sale in Cape Girardeau County. CBS5.com has an interview (and online video coverage) with owner, Alaina Hinze, who bought the cemetery 5 years ago when she was 24. She’s been the sole employee ever since. But now [...]
View PostMissing Tomb Stones at Jugha Cemetery
A recent article by IWPR.com reveals the fate of Jugha Cemetery – one of the most famous medieval Christian cemeteries in Azerbaijan (a primarily Muslim nation between Iran and Russia which gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991).
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