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In Bosnia, each funeral never ends

Predrag — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:04:53 +0000

How many times can you bury your child without going mad? It’s a question that has haunted hundreds of Bosnian mothers facing an agonising dilemma: as researchers identify remains scattered around mass graves from the Srebrenica massacre, do...

Shifting trends in the “death care” industry

Shaweta Chauhan — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:57:32 +0000

In today’s world everything is commercialized, even burials for that matter. The burial industry is a booming industry today, with a “business” of $11 billion-a-year in US alone. The latest trend in the burial industry is that of...

Now it is the turn of death to get eco-friendly!

Sameer Kumar — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:05:11 +0000

Remember the famous song of Eagles ‘Dust in the wind’? I do tend to listen to the song once in a while, especially when I feel that my head is in the clouds a bit too much. The lyrics kind of tend to give you a dose of reality in a...

Funeral - an epitome of the only growing industry in Zimbabwe

Pooja — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:51:15 +0000

People congregated in small crowds singing hymns and saying prayers...their heads drooping down, can’t figure out whether they are cursing fate or disparaging the birth of their babies because their lives are limited to the time they enter...

Cremation, not environment friendly?

Pratyush — Mon, 15 May 2006 09:39:50 +0000

A provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall said that cremateion of the human body may not be environmental friendly, as it was said earlier. He says further that this issue needs some study. On the other hand funerals directors denied any...