By Selene San Felice. The Downs family saw their land become a military base during World War I. Now, their family cemetery is about to […]
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Burials without funerals, grief without hugs: Coronavirus is changing how we say goodbye
By Peter D. Kramer. Maggie Farley wants to remember the way her father lived – the Denver probate lawyer’s sense of humor, integrity and decades […]
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Paris Cemetery Nearing Full Capacity Due to Coronavirus: ‘There Are More Deaths Than We Can Bury’
By Shachar Peled. PARIS – Deaths from the coronavirus are mounting in France and the Thiais cemetery on the outskirts of Paris is almost out […]
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Coronavirus overwhelms New York’s mortuary system
By Matthew Chayes. So many people are dying from coronavirus in the metropolitan area that each link in the mortuary system is overwhelmed: morgues, hospitals, […]
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Volunteers work to clean up historic New London cemetery for first time
By Rachael Smith. NEW LONDON — For the past several years, Delores Nash Hicks has been lovingly maintaining a now-inactive cemetery in New London where […]
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Nearly 100 years after Tulsa Massacre, city plans to search cemetery for victims
By Mihir Zaveri. Archaeologists plan to excavate part of a cemetery in Tulsa, Okla., to see if it holds the remains of black residents slaughtered […]
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Paying some respects at forgotten cemetery
By Vince Martonis. HANOVER – Citizens everywhere should adhere to and be guided by this very simple but important principle — all cemeteries should be […]
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30 Curse tablets addressed to gods of the underworld discovered down well in ancient Greek cemetery
By Rosie McCall. Archaeologists have discovered 30 tablets at the bottom of an ancient well, each engraved with curses intended to harm the recipient. According […]
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Houston’s Pleasant Green-Culbertson cemetery is like many African-American graveyards – rundown and blocked off
By Sarah Smith. HOUSTON -Patrick Young waited in the woods to see who had put up a padlocked gate across the entrance to a cemetery […]
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Archaeologists find graves of high-status Romans in Somerset
By Steven Morris. The resting places of more than 50 adults and children have been found in an unusual Roman cemetery unearthed during building work […]
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