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5 days, 20 hours ago

Hollywood Forever’s new mausoleum is a high-rise for the dead: ‘This is the future of cemeteries’

LA Times

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the resting place of Rudolph Valentino, Judy Garland, Alfred Hitchcock, Cecil B. DeMille and other Hollywood royalty — not to mention contemporary icons like Johnny Ramone, Chris Cornell and Quincy Jones — has always been a place of innovation. “We’re not going to build more cemeteries in L.A., so we need to come up with creative ways …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Tweed Heads cemetery robber sentenced for removing memorial plaques from grave sites

ABC

A grave robber who stole more than 100 memorial plaques from a cemetery near the Queensland-New South Wales border has been sentenced to more than a year in prison. Michael Bennett Gardner removed 103 copper plaques from the Tweed Heads General Cemetery in August. In the Tweed Heads Local Court today, Gardner's solicitor Amanda Fawaz said he was "ashamed, embarrassed …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Cemetery tourism' on rise as photographers, amateur historians unearth towns' hidden stories

ABC

There is a weather-beaten gravestone among a thousand others at Ballarat's Old Cemetery. Every grave marker tells a personal story, even the laconic "Mother 1.2.1864 — 9.8 1933; Father 3.10.1862 — 22.10.1935". Organised "ghost tours" are popular at some of the country's larger burial centres but even the smallest, most-remote cemeteries attract visitors keen to explore another side of a …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Submerged cemeteries pile pain on Spain flood survivors

Raw Story

More than a week after surging torrents of muddy water ravaged Spain, flooded cemeteries are making dignified burials for victims impossible and compounding the pain of bereaved survivors. "The destruction is enormous," said Salvador Pons, an employee at the municipal cemetery in the devastated town of Catarroja who was directing a group of volunteers helping the clean-up. None of the …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Remembering Saints on All Saints' Day: A Spiritual Celebration of the Dead

Hindustan Times

All Saints' Day is a somber and spiritual day in the church's liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with Halloween. It honours martyrs and saints, with believers and non-believers alike observing the day. In Poland, it is one of the most important days of the year, with people traveling back to their family homes to gather with those still living …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Spiritual, not spooky. After Halloween, Christians observe All Saints' Day

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But one day later, Christians …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Halloween 2024: Some people might find my hobby “morbid.” I find it incredibly soothing.

Slate

Drivers passing the old country cemetery on Woodlawn Road must’ve found the sight strange: a bright yellow bicycle leaning against the fence, a picnic basket placed in the overgrown grass, and a teenage girl with her nose deep in a book. While Halloween movies like Hocus Pocus or horror flicks like Frankenstein or Pet Sematary portrayed cemeteries creepily, I’ve always …

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2 months ago

Family: I tried to solve a mystery about my grandfather. Then I made a stunning discovery.

Slate

It’s a good way to spend a Saturday morning—if, admittedly, a strange one. “I just Googled an ancestor’s name and their Find a Grave Page popped up,” O’Donnell told me. Known as “memorials,” these are a kind of online profile for particular dead people created after gravers read their obituaries in their local paper, take it upon themselves to photograph …

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2 months ago

Each year at this time, tombstone tourists take in the sights at cemeteries

NPR

Each year at this time, tombstone tourists take in the sights at cemeteries Loren Rhoads — the author of “222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die” — acts as our cemetery travel guide this Halloween season. Loren Rhoads is the author of "222 Cemeteries To See Before You Die." But I think sometimes, people don't realize the amount of beauty …

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3 months ago

Shep the dog to a WW2 pigeon: Eight strange and poignant images of pet cemeteries

BBC

Shep the dog to a WW2 pigeon: Eight strange and poignant images of pet cemeteries Paul Koudounaris A new photography book explores the practice of memorialising beloved beasts, from a performing elephant in Las Vegas to service animals and the world's most loyal sheepdog. Faithful Unto Death – Pet cemeteries, animal graves and eternal devotion, published by Thames & Hudson …

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4 months, 1 week ago

As Gaza death toll passes 40,000, corpses are buried in yards, streets, tiered graves

LA Times

Palestinian gravedigger Sa’di Baraka, center, oversees a burial in the cemetery in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Aug. 10. Tiers of graves are stacked deep underground in a bloated Gaza cemetery, where Sa’di Baraka spends his days hacking at the earth, making room for more dead. “It seems,” Palestinian author Yousri Alghoul wrote for the Institute for Palestine Studies, …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

BMC to get plot reserved for cemeteries after 8-yr legal battle

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: After a prolonged legal battle since 2016 involving 25 hearings, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation has agreed to hand over a four-acre plot reserved for a burial ground each for Muslims and Christians, a crematorium for Hindus and a dispensary at Bandra Reclamation to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. The BMC reserved the plot in the development plan for …

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9 months ago

Would you take a trip to the cemetery for a day out with the dead?

Live Mint

Before cities had parks and gardens in Europe, it wasn’t unusual to see families with food hampers heading to the local picnic destination: the cemetery. Visiting during le temps des cerises, or cherry blossom time, is a reminder of the life and death of an attempt to create revolutionary change—and the price many pay in that attempt,” Dr Stewart says, …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Muslim Cemeteries Are Facing More Backlash Than Ever

Huff Post

ORLAND PARK, Ill. — Kifah Mustapha, the imam at Orland Park Prayer Center, wasn’t surprised when a petition protesting the idea of a Muslim cemetery in the area began circulating. HuffPost has documented more than two dozen incidents where people protested the construction of a Muslim cemetery in states including Illinois, New York and others. “Our office is committed to …

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9 months, 1 week ago

As threats to Black cemeteries persist, a movement to preserve their sacred heritage gains strength

LA Times

Jessie Wooden sits on a crypt in the Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery in Miami’s Brownsville neighborhood. In Washington, members of a historically Black sorority recruited an expert who helped find the 1919 burial site of one of the sorority’s founders, hidden from view in an overgrown, badly neglected section of Woodlawn Cemetery. “There’s growing awareness among the public that cemeteries …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Patt Morrison: Take a walk through L.A.'s spectacular, neglected and paved-over cemeteries

LA Times

“Have you had any snow yet?” Hazel asks a correspondent in Topeka, Kan., on the reverse of this postcard, which is postmarked January 1948, from Patt Morrison’s collection. In the sylvan acreage of cemeteries like Forest Lawn, we now give death the space to be just one more extreme lifestyle choice, where the body — tanned and tended in life …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Mass graves, unclaimed bodies and overcrowded cemeteries. The war robs Gaza of funeral rites

Associated Press

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — It was neither the place nor the time for a proper goodbye, said Omar Dirawi. Yet on this October week in Gaza’s central town of Zawaideh, the 22-year-old Palestinian photojournalist buried 32 members of his family who were killed in Israeli air raids last Sunday. “We often find this during our work, even just night …

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54 years, 11 months ago

‘Tombstone tourists’ travel to the world’s coolest cemeteries

CNN

CNN — Until she left for college, film historian Karie Bible spent almost her entire childhood living next to a cemetery. “It’s always an adventure and always an experience to go in, dig around and see what you can find.” Cemeteries are teeming with history Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, represents "Southern gothic at its finest," Bible said. “They all …

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1 year, 2 months ago

All that remains: From liquid cremation to mushroom suits, why more people are opting out of burial

Salon

There are an awful lot of tombstones in my neighborhood lately. "Different elements go into a green burial," he says, "including a biodegradable casket and tombstone, a natural fiber shroud, a shallow grave to accelerate biodegradation, and opting for overall smaller headstones. Artist and inventor Jae Rhim Lee created a stir with her proposal for an "Infinity Burial System," a …

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1 year, 7 months ago

L.A.’s guerrilla readings are invading parking lots and cemeteries

LA Times

The scene at Casual Encountersz in March. Loren returned to L.A. in 2021 and hosted an ersatz dinner-party salon that spun off into Casual Encountersz, “readings of rage and romance” at his house, or anywhere really. The 38-year-old seized a rhythm between the “manic Gen Z voices” and his “geriatric millennial peers,” like the night he paired Jasmine Johnson’s stream-of-consciousness …

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1 year, 8 months ago

NSW government under pressure to act as Sydney's cemeteries near capacity

ABC

Sydney is at risk of running out of burial plots if the management of its public cemeteries is not sorted out by the new state government, a report has found. Key points: An new report has delved into the state government's cemetery management body Sydney's main cemeteries continue to be at risk of filling up Religious communities would be affected …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Travel: seeking diamonds in Birmingham

Live Mint

As stones go, it looks quite ordinary, even though this felsite boulder was deposited during the Ice Age by a glacier. Yet, there is history here—in the listed red-brick buildings, once bustling factories, the century-old Chamberlain Clock, the ink in the Pen Museum, and hidden in the soft earth in Birmingham’s last Georgian Square. I get a brief lesson in …

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2 years, 1 month ago

El Salvador fights gangs by destroying members’ tombstones

Associated Press

SANTA TECLA, El Salvador — El Salvador’s government took its efforts against the country’s powerful street gangs to another level by sending inmates into cemeteries to destroy the tombs of gang members at a time of year when families typically visit their loved ones’ graves. Authorities had already painted over or removed gang graffiti that used to be visible in …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Water pollution: Are cemeteries contaminating aquifers?

Slate

This article is adapted with permission from Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville. One study estimated that about 21 million Americans got “water from systems that violated health standards” in 2015—the same year the Flint, Michigan, water crisis occurred, exposing as many as 100,000 people to lead. Research on how cemeteries contaminate …

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Hollywood Forever’s new mausoleum is a high-rise for the dead: ‘This is the future of cemeteries’

Tweed Heads cemetery robber sentenced for removing memorial plaques from grave sites

'Cemetery tourism' on rise as photographers, amateur historians unearth towns' hidden stories

Submerged cemeteries pile pain on Spain flood survivors

Remembering Saints on All Saints' Day: A Spiritual Celebration of the Dead

Spiritual, not spooky. After Halloween, Christians observe All Saints' Day

Halloween 2024: Some people might find my hobby “morbid.” I find it incredibly soothing.

Family: I tried to solve a mystery about my grandfather. Then I made a stunning discovery.

Each year at this time, tombstone tourists take in the sights at cemeteries

Shep the dog to a WW2 pigeon: Eight strange and poignant images of pet cemeteries

As Gaza death toll passes 40,000, corpses are buried in yards, streets, tiered graves

BMC to get plot reserved for cemeteries after 8-yr legal battle

Would you take a trip to the cemetery for a day out with the dead?

Muslim Cemeteries Are Facing More Backlash Than Ever

As threats to Black cemeteries persist, a movement to preserve their sacred heritage gains strength

Patt Morrison: Take a walk through L.A.'s spectacular, neglected and paved-over cemeteries

Mass graves, unclaimed bodies and overcrowded cemeteries. The war robs Gaza of funeral rites

‘Tombstone tourists’ travel to the world’s coolest cemeteries

All that remains: From liquid cremation to mushroom suits, why more people are opting out of burial

L.A.’s guerrilla readings are invading parking lots and cemeteries

NSW government under pressure to act as Sydney's cemeteries near capacity

Travel: seeking diamonds in Birmingham

El Salvador fights gangs by destroying members’ tombstones

Water pollution: Are cemeteries contaminating aquifers?