For The Dying, A Vinyl Offer of Immortality

Tweet And on the other end of the music spectrum… yesterday we dealt with music for babies.  Today we turn to music for the dead.  Literally.  A British company called And Vinyly will turn your remains into vinyl when you die. Or if you’re not dead yet you can have a body part pressed into [...]

 
Worst Place for Walking Dead Ad, Outside a Funeral Home

Tweet The zombies of AMC’s hit show The Walking Dead have landed in Britain with a marketing campaign that includes the requisite on-air promos and outdoor billboards.  Just one problem, Clear Channel the firm that posts the billboards made a mistake. Yup.  They put up a large billboard for the show outside a funeral home.  [...]

 
And This is Why Cremation is a Good Idea

Tweet I don’t care how many sci-fi books you’ve read or how many times you’ve seen Han Solo come back in Return of the Jedi– people were not meant to be frozen, at least not in the early 21st century.  Case in point from ESPN: Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams’ severed head was [...]

 
How to Bury a Millionaire, Widow Auctions Tomb Above Marilyn Monroe

Tweet If you have a thing for Marilyn Monroe and you just can’t let go, then you need to meet  Elsie Poncher.  Poncher is offering a golden ticket to an afterlife with Marilyn Monroe… on eBay.  She is selling her late husband’s burial spot at Westwood Village Memorial Park, which sits directly above film legend [...]

 
Live Bloging of the Jackson Memorial on Tape Delay

Tweet Casual observations of the day’s big event. 9:03am (FOX News) News readers have to educate the audience while trying to fill time with overhead helicopter shots. Tell us about Forest Lawn Cemetery– “Freddie Prinze is buried there.” The best celebrity that FOX News’ Martha MacCallum could come up with was Freddie Prinze!?  Not to [...]

Jul 052009
 
Pop Star Dies at 50 in Los Angeles

Tweet The memorial service for Michael Jackson is going to be held on July 7th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.   We’re only in the second week of coverage.  Now the media is going to pour over the will, a possible custody battle, the autopsy, the doctor, the police procedures, and on and on. [...]

 
Suicide Is Painless, Unless Someone Pushes You

Tweet After sitting in a traffic jam for five hours due to a suicide threat on the Haizhu bridge in Guangzhou China, retired soldier Lian Jiansheng, 66, broke through the police barricades and pushed the would-be jumper Chen Fuchao off the bridge. “I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action [...]

Last Stab at Vanity

 Posted by at 2:51 am  Living
Dec 282008
 
Last Stab at Vanity

Tweet Morticians have always worked cosmetic magic when trying to recapturing the lifelike appearance of a person who’s died.  Now, however, the ones that Carly Simon wrote that song about are making advance arrangements for these final touches and in ways they never used to even think about. “I’ve had people mention that they want [...]

 
'Flying coffin' kills widow on way to husband's funeral

Tweet This just in from our London bureau… A woman died on the way to a cemetery when a traffic accident hurled her husband’s coffin against the back of her neck. Police say 67-year old Marciana Silva Barcelos was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the accident occurred on Monday in the [...]

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