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  • July 2008

    • 'Predatory' Funeral Industry Comes Under Fire

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Jul 5, 08 6:21 PM CDT

      'Predatory' Funeral Industry Comes Under Fire

      The funeral industry preys on bereft customers, artificially raising prices and taking custody of bodies it has no right to handle, argues a watchdog group. The Funeral Consumers Alliance aims to push fair and environmentally friendly death-care practices, Newsweek reports. “Funeral corporations use predatory sales tactics and aggressive marketing to get people to spend on services they don't need,” says the group’s director. More »

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      environment  • death  • funeral  • cremation  • watchdog  • burial  • funeral home

  • June 2008

    • For Inventor, RIP: Rest in Pringles Can

      newser  |  Cincinnati Enquirer  |  Jun 2, 08 3:10 PM CDT

      For Inventor, RIP: Rest in Pringles Can

      The man who invented the Pringles can is taking the chips' "Once you pop, you can't stop" slogan to eternity, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Dr. Fredric J. Baur patented the iconic container in 1970 while working for Procter & Gamble, and had long wished to be buried in one; after he died last month at 89, his survivors obliged, interring some ashes in a can and an urn and giving the rest to a grandson. More »

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      junk food  • snack foods  • Proctor  • cremation  • burial  • Pringles

  • May 2008

    • Stonehenge Reveals Itself: It's a Cemetery

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 29, 08 6:30 PM CDT

      Stonehenge Reveals Itself: It's a Cemetery

      Before Stonehenge was Stonehenge, it was a cemetery, the New York Times reports. Around the time the first monumental rocks were installed in 2500 BC, the last of an estimated 240 human burials took place at the English site. Researchers say it was likely the burial ground of a ruling family—probably the same clan responsible for erecting the stones. More »

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      England  • archaeology  • cremation  • Stonehenge  • burial  • cemetery

    • Pentagon Quits Cremating Troops Alongside Pets

      newser  |  McClatchy Newspapers  |  May 10, 08 10:55 AM CDT

      Pentagon Quits Cremating Troops Alongside Pets

      The Pentagon will stop sending fallen troops to a crematorium that also handles pets, McClatchy reports. A Delaware Air Force base had been sending the bodies of troops killed in battle to a crematorium that had two separate facilities, one for humans, another for pets. The move was prompted by complaints from a soldier who accompanied the body of a friend and noticed the pet facility. More »

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      Pentagon  • American troops  • cremation

  • September 2007
  • August 2007

    • Keith Did, In Fact, Snort Dad

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 7, 07 5:13 PM CDT

      Keith Did, In Fact, Snort Dad

      Keith Richards says that—reported denials aside—he did indeed snort his father’s ashes. The Rolling Stones sideman revealed in an interview yesterday that media reports had mixed up the story, and that he’d only meant to deny mixing the remains with a popular opiate. “I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with,” he clarified. More »

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      drugs  • cocaine  • musician  • Rolling Stones  • Keith Richards  • cremation  • guitarist

  • April 2007

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