In case you haven't heard already: the sign language interpreter at the funeral for Nelson Mendela was a fake. He signed pure gibberish. If Thamsanqa Jantjie knows any sign language, he failed to demonstrate it at the fu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/13/What-The-Sign-Language-Interpreter-Was-Actually-Trying-to-Do/(Image: Bridgeman Art Library)Before ships had refrigerated morgues, it was common to bury the dead at sea. A sailor's body and weights would be sewed up inside a hammock. His mates would finish the task by sewing the la...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/28/One-Last-Stitch-to-Make-Sure-That-Hes-Dead/(Photo: Shawn Inglima/New York Daily News)Even if you love your pets, it can be hard to spend eternity with them using conventional funeral arrangements. Kerry Vera, pictured above, has a solution: she wants her cremated...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/16/New-York-Pet-Cemeteries-Now-Accept-Human-Remains/The father of redditor gooddrunky died. Her brother, uncle and friends came together to build him a casket in 2 days. She writes in response to comments:Thank you all for your kind words and wishes. I'm sharing this beca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/03/Family-Pulls-Together-to-Build-Dads-Casket/Chuckles was a good clown--always there with a laugh. Let us now pay our respects in the traditional manner.Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/15/A-Clown-Funeral/The funeral industry wasn't always like it is today. Rituals and practices evolve over time, and made relatively sudden changes when society changes. Collector's Weekly spoke to undertaker Caitlin Doughty, the founder of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/18/Giving-Death-a-Makeover/Look around you. Do you trust these idiots to handle your funeral properly? Neither did Jim Gernhart. In 1951, this Colorado farmer planned his own funeral in detail and conducted a full dress reheasal so people would kn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/14/The-Man-Who-Rehearsed-His-Own-Funeral/David S. Kime Jr., 88, liked to eat Whopper Juniors from Burger King. He loved fast food and especially loved that burger. On the way to the funeral, the hearse that carried him stopped by the drive-through window for on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/29/Man-Gets-His-Last-Burger-During-His-Funeral-Procession/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...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/10/The-Baby-Grave-Trees-of-Tana-Toraja/Not sure which was worse, going to a wake at 9a.m all hungover. or looking at the casket thinking that'd be a great place for a nap. - @1surlygurl...
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