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Fallen Soldier Corey Shea WASHINGTON – Denise Anderson lost her only son in the Iraq war. She’s determined not to lose her fight to be buried with him in a national veterans cemetery. Army Spc. Corey Shea died Nov. 12, 2008, in Mosul, with one about a month left on his tour of duty in Iraq. [...] In her personal blog, The Root of All Evel: Surviving the Loss of a Child, Julie McAnary describes bringing her baby boy home after he was stillborn and cremated. “On November 4th, 2009 mommy and daddy picked you up from the chapel. It smelled like stale cigarettes and felt strangely like home there. An elderly lady [...] Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cindy47452/2876871918/ Publisher: American Catholic Article Excerpts: Dust to Dust: Lifting the Ban Publication: USA Today Article Excerpt: So you think London, population 8 million, is crowded with the living? There are many millions more under the soil of a city that has been inhabited for 2,000 years. And London is rapidly running out of places to put them. Now the city’s largest cemetery is trying [...] Publication: eHow.com Article Excerpt: Cemetery Plots are a unique class of real estate to invest in. The price is low compared to traditional real estate investments and the profits can be huge as you also help out families in need. You can get started with just a few hundred dollars and some research [...] Just part of the underwater cemetery Article: Freaky Friday – Offbeat Florida: World’s first underwater cemetery – Neptune Memorial Reef (video) Article Excerpt: …Instead of spreading ashes over ocean waters, at Neptune Memorial Reef the ashes of loved ones are mixed with cement designed for underwater use and fitted into a mold, [...] Publisher: Forbes Magazine Article Excerpt: No, you may not be able to live among the rich and famous, but you can afford to be dead among them. Exclusive and expensive cemeteries begin–but don’t end–in places like New York, California and Texas, where late stars of industry, politics and Hollywood reside. [...] Publisher: Forbes Magazine Article Excerpt: Considering the fact that in some cemeteries a 20-foot-by-20-foot private plot of land can cost as much as $1 million, death can be a pretty expensive proposition. Although the most exclusive cemeteries offer burials at (somewhat) affordable prices, wealthy individuals who want to enjoy death in the [...] Publisher: BBC News, Tokyo Article Excerpt: … The vast majority of Japanese are cremated. In a ceremony relatives collect the ashes, picking up pieces of bone with chopsticks, and placing them in a ceramic urn. The remains are then buried, usually under a family tombstone. But in the high-rise graveyard, the urns are stored [...] Publication: Personal Blog of John Young John shares his thoughts about the recent land set aside in Fort Collins Colorado cemetery for green burial. I still prefer to be barbecued. Or broiled — however it is that my remains can be reduced to the kind of dusty nutrient that makes [...] |
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