While the cemetery is commonly referred to as simply “Le Cimetière des Chiens,” you’ll see a few places where the longer name of “Le Cimetière […]
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Sucre’s General Cemetery
As you enter Sucre’s general cemetery, a bold sign above the imposing white entrance warns Hodie Mihi Cras Tibi: Today Me, Tomorrow You. Walking around […]
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Green Burials
Green burial, also called a natural burial, is an environmentally friendly burial that aims to have as little impact on the earth as possible. In […]
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Cremation
Cremation, the practice of reducing a corpse to its essential elements by burning. The practice of cremation on open fires was introduced to the Western […]
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Historic graves help tell Titanic story
On April 15, 1912, over 1,500 lives were lost in the northern Atlantic from the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a ship dubbed as, “unsinkable.” To […]
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