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With space in our cemeteries running out, we could bury the dead in new forest developments that would bring green space to our urban areas.
The processing time for the government's Funeral Expenses Payment is decreasing, but the costs related to a funeral are still high.
A play written in the fifth century B.C. mirrors America's current disunion: Political and moral views are framed in terms of a fight between patriot and traitor, law and conscience, and chaos and order.
A body in an Italian museum reveals that Egyptians living 1,500 or more years before the Pharaohs already knew how to preserve bodies.
Most big city cemeteries in Australia date back to the 1800s, so we need to consider our burial options before we reach the point when the number of deaths exceeds the available cemetery plots.
A failure to innovate could mean the death of the traditional industry.
New evidence suggests that Homo naledi didn't deliberately deposit their dead in a hidden chamber.
From the basics of corpse disposal to why your wishes don't actually count.
Many must wish that Shakespeare’s final words to posterity consisted of something more than a curt demand to be left alone.
What's in a name? In search of the link between the Parisi people of East Yorkshire and Parisii of northern France.
Remains from a 9000-year-old victim in Brazil suggests he was beheaded, de-fleshed and had his hands amputated.
So what does the discovery of this great author's bones actually change?
My mother died recently and at the funeral home I was asked if I had any ideas what kind of coffin she would like. For some reason I said something environmentally friendly. These words came out of my…
Headstones at the Dudley Park cemetery in Payneham, South Australia, were recently bulldozed as part of the ongoing “recycling” of more than 400 graves. Some people were shocked to realise that gravesites…
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