Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and what happens to a culture when its attitude about how to memorialize the dead undergoes a rev
One early researcher on the topic attributes this physiological response to the cremation of loved ones in prehistoric days. According to Paul D. MacLean, M.D., Ph.D., when our oldest ancestors cremated their deceased they were overcome by emotions, as well as the smoke that got in their...
This might entail cremation, decapitation or driving a wooden stake through the heart. Bodies might also be buried face down, so the undead corpses would dig deeper into the earth, rather than up into shallower ground. Some families secured stakes above the dead body so it would impale itself...
Rimadyl (carprofen) was introduced by Pfizer in 1997 as a treatment for joint pain and arthritis. It does work for some dogs, but some die, and others have to be euthanized.
May that other-half be a partner, a sibling, a child, a parent, a friend or even a pet,it is possible to stay together in the after-life thanks to companion urns. What are companion urns? Companion urns are cremation urns that are designed to hold the cremains of more ...
lovely spot, and it took me three hours to dig an appropriately sized hole. If you're digging somewhere else, you may not have that problem. But all I can tell you is that it was very hard, and I wish I'd brought water with me because I was exhausted by the time it was done....
This is a good sociological question because at first glance, it seems like a pretty stupid question. Even a child knows the answer to that question, although you might get some interesting responses depending on the age and upbringing if you try asking some children how you can tell the ...
At that point, he gets put on the schedule, and he gets picked up by me, the crematory operator, and he goes into the cremation machine. And the cremation is about a two-hour process — about an hour and a half for the actual cremation process to take place, where the full human ...
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They might try an exorcism ritual, but more often they would destroy the body. This might entail cremation, decapitation or driving a wooden stake through the heart. Bodies might also be buried face down, so the undead corpses would dig deeper into the earth, rather than up into shallower ...