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FBI investigates Arlington National Cemetery’s mess
Here is the deal: If you serve or served the United States military, you may be eligible to be buried at our nation’s most elite military cemetery, Arlington National. Unfortunately, Arlington...
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Cemetery mix-up
Two Queens, New York siblings have filed a $25 million lawsuit against a Linden, New Jersey cemetery claiming breach of contract. For twenty years, the sisters have been paying their respects at a...
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What is taking the bar exam like? Dying.
New Orleans Cemetery It is the end of July. This means that for many unlucky law school graduates they are about to take the bar exam (or are recovering from just taking it). A week before my bar exam,...
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Update — New Jersey Cemetery Mix Up
“More families are desperate to know where their loved ones are buried in a New Jersey cemetery already being sued for mixing up a Queens woman’s final resting place,” reports the NY Daily News....
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“Life is good again — and death is looking better”
Well, at least it is for New Yorkers who want to be buried alongside their their animals. This is quite a different take than that of the Ramones. Tiny top hat tip — Siouxsie Law’s Mom
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“Neighbors’ homes are ‘falling apart,’ their yards ‘littered with junk.’ How...
That is what “Jim Davis, who appears to be neither goth nor the creator of the popular comic strip Garfield” says about burying his wife, Patsy, in his front yard. Sadly for Mr. Davis, an Alabama court...
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“Sahkanaga” is the coming-of-age film set against the backdrop of the...
“In 2002, after a tip from an anonymous caller, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigators discovered more than 300 uncreamated bodies in the woods near the crematory.” Now there is a movie...
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“Every weekday, thousands of commuters to the nation’s capital drive past the...
Begins the final installment of NPR’s Dead Stop, a series chronicling a “summer road trip visiting strange, funny, historic and notable gravesites and cemeteries across America.” The last episode...
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High-tech headstones bring the dead back to life
Wikipedia’s QR code Well, sort of. A Philadelphia company has started marketing headstones with QR codes aka “Living Headstones.” This idea is pure genius. Think of all the times you have visited a...
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“It’s cheaper to be buried with your pets than it is to be buried in a human...
For most of us, Stephen King has ruined the idea of being buried in a pet cemetery alongside your favorite dead animals. But according to AOL news, a small and growing number of pet owners are...
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