Dying for some graveyard giggles? Here's news to tickle a dead man's funny bone.
The family of Meredith Smith of Indianapolis placed some of his cremated remains in the shell of fireworks to be used at the city's 2008 July 4th show. Smith's family started the event nearly 40 years ago, and it was the man's wish to go out with a bang.
By a margin of 23 votes, Neculai Ivascu won the mayoral race in a small Romanian village over Ghoerghe Dobrescu, and, unlike Ivascu, he got to vote for himself, because he's alive.
As a promotion for a minor league baseball game, a fan wins a prize that's an absolute dead giveaway.
Pringles.comWhat's the ideal urn for Fredrick J. Baur, inventor of the Pringles potato chip packaging system? One of his iconic cans, of course. He follows other inventors who decided their final act would be to honor their contribution to pop culture.
Doctors told terminally ill Jon Matthews "don't make any plans for Christmas," but the man stricken with Mesothelioma won the wager of a lifetime.
The skeletal remains of a 93-year-old Texas woman may have remained on a couch in her living room for months while one or more people continued living in the house.
In a class action suit, more than 1,0000 families are suing undertakers, claiming their relatives body parts were harvested and sold for medical use without consent.
Over the last 14 years, Wan Fngxia, a 75-year-old woman from China, has written more than 500 letter to her dead husband, according to the
Beijing Morning Post. She recently gave him updates on the Beijing Olympics. Wan says she started writing the letters because she didn't want to bore her friends, and has recently donated a collection of the letters to a museum.
The Mayor of a village in the Sarpourenx France has told the town's 260 residents that if you don't already own a plot at the local cemetery, you are "forbidden from dying in the parish." The new ordinance maintains: "Offenders will be severely punished."
The remains of a 76-year-old New Zealand woman had been loaded on a hearse when a fight broke out between family members and an estranged daughter drove off with her mother's corpse in an SUV. A police roadblock failed to nab the body snatcher.
