Philippa Langley stood in a parking lot near the site of the old Greyfriars Church in Leicester, England. She’d been working on a screenplay about Richard III and was curious to see where the maligned king had b...

Neatorama has featured a number of modern innovati...  ...remains are encased in an organic, biodegradable burial "capsule," from which a tree eventually takes roo...  ...es as to the type of tree planted. Because such a burial is currently illegal in Italy, the project is mer...

Burial in the Micmac part of the cemetery is extra....  ...e regulation, while pet cemeteries can now accept burial of human ashes, they may not advertise human burial services.

In its past, Hart Island in New York City has been...  ...nfants—some parents couldn’t afford a burial , others didn’t realize what a “city burial ” meant when they checked it on the form. Ma...  ...r more than two weeks, you, too, will be sent for burial...

Julia Pastrana, once known as "the ugliest woman in the world," was born in 1834 with hypertrichosis terminalis, meaning her entire body was covered with hair several inches long. She also had a deformed mouth with huge...

There's no resting in peace when a loved one cannot bear to let go. A recent case in Detroit of a man arrested for sneaking his father's body home before the funeral inspired a list of other cases of body snatching. Some...

The people of Tana Toraja, an island in Indonesia, have a richly developed body of practices for mourning. Among them is a unique approach to marking the death of a baby. If a child dies before s/he teethes, the family c...

James Davis of Alabama fulfilled his wif...  ...While state health officials say family burial plots aren't uncommon in Alabama, cit...  ..., which the government can regulate, and a family burial

I don't know about you guys, but I'm still uncertain about whether or not I would want my body to be buried or cremated after I die. That being said, I certainly would love to be a part of any of these unique and coo...

Environmental Graffiti has a gallery of images...  ...an underground crypt in Belgium. It was used for burials for decades, but maintenance was discontinued bec...