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Tech

Future Funerals: How Death Is Slowly Being Disrupted

10.31.17

By Ernie Smith
The Unusual Stuff We’ve Done with Our Cremated Loved Ones

07.04.17

By Charlie Gilmour
Health

Texas Abortion Clinics Have to Bury or Cremate Fetuses Now

11.29.16

By Lauren Messman
We Asked an Undertaker Why He Keeps Strangers’ Unclaimed Ashes for Decades

10.29.16

By Jesse Donaldson
Identity

The Vatican Says Catholics Shouldn’t Spread Their Dead Relatives’ Ashes Around Anymore

10.25.16

By Allison Schaller
Food

Jamie Oliver Says He Wants to Be Cremated In a Pizza Oven When He Dies

08.02.16

By Daisy Meager
Tech

This Town Is Pouring Dissolved Human Bodies Into Its Sewer System

06.20.16

By Amil Niazi
This Is What It’s Like to Burn Bodies for a Living

05.30.16

By Anonymous, As Told to Rick Paulas
Being Buried on the Moon Now Costs About the Same as an Average Funeral

08.26.15

By Allison Tierney
Health

Scottish People Are Getting Too Fat to Be Cremated

08.17.15

By Amber Roberts
Environment

Flooded Corpses Are Leaking Formaldehyde into Northern Ireland’s Groundwater

06.07.15

By David Gilmour
Identity

Atheism Terrifies People Because It Makes Us Think About Death

05.11.15

By Simon Davis

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