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PHOTOS: The Dying Art of Making Dia de los Muertos Sugar Skulls
Meet the company keeping this Mexican tradition alive.
Former-Wallaby Dan Vickerman Passes Away
Tributes pour in from around the sporting world for the 37-year-old, 63 test Wallaby veteran.
This Restaurant Wants You to Dine with the Dead
Inside a dimly lit restaurant situated near the Sidi Saiyad mosque in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, it is hard to escape a glaring fact: the tables and booths are arranged around large, casket-like tombs. At New Lucky, the customers are dining with the...
Meet the First Family of Creative Ghanaian Handmade Coffins
Great Big Story takes a look inside Ghanaian craftsman Anang Kwei’s coffin workshop.
Widow Challenges French Law That Prohibits Using a Dead Man’s Sperm to Get Pregnant
A young Spanish woman whose husband passed away last year has asked France to hand over his frozen sperm so that she can have his child in Spain.
A Day in the Life of a James Dean Impersonator
Photographer Reto Sterchi followed Scott Brimigion as he competed in the famous James Dean lookalike contest in the icon's hometown of Fairmount, Indiana.
Dying on Facebook
The company will either delete the profile or preserve it as a "memorialization" account—but neither of those options are without problems, and some people are frustrated by their lack of control over their loved ones' pages.
An Australian Crossbow Enthusiast Is on a Kangaroo Killing Spree
The bodies of 13 kangaroos have been found around Melbourne's northeast suburbs, and the killer remains at large.
I Ate Cake in a German Cemetery Café
I recently heard about Berlin's Café Strauss because it allows one to enjoy coffee and cake in an unexpectedly peaceful place: the cemetery. Drinking coffee among dead people is a new experience around here. They even host birthday parties (for the...