Should This Cemetery Back Down?
For one father, a simple headstone isn't enough to honor his fallen son, a Navy veteran. Standing Rock Cemetery contends Fred Molai is breaking the rules with 8-foot high...
Cemeteries
World’s First Lesbian-Only Cemetery Opening In Germany
A new burial area for lesbians only is being inaugurated this weekend in a two-century-old cemetery in the German capital. A 400-square-meter (4,300-square-foot) area of the Lutheran Georgen...
StoneMor Partners Drops $53.8 Million In Cash For SCI Properties
StoneMor Partners L.P. announced today that it has signed definitive agreements to purchase 9 funeral homes, 12 cemeteries and 2 crematories from Service Corporation International for an aggregate...
How Some Graves at Hollywood Forever Have Stayed Forever Green
It’s hard to remember that the Hollywood Forever Cemetery that now plays host to James Blake concerts and showings of “Point Break” had fallen into disuse and decrepitude...
How Fedex Drivers Honor Fellow Employee
These heart-warming pictures were shared by a FedEx delivery driver on reddit. They show how hundreds FedEx Express drivers commemorated a fallen fellow employee and friend. They rounded up about...
Bill Would End Wisconsin’s 80-Year-Old prohibition on Cemeteries Owning Funeral Homes
When Kevin Pagenkopf's son told his first-grade teacher what he wants to be when he grows up, she didn't expect him to say funeral director. Pagenkopf said he...
Dead Biker Embalmed Riding Harley, Buried in Giant Transparent Casket
Years before Billy Standley died on Sunday, he planned out every detail of his funeral: He bought up the three plots next to his wife's grave, had his...