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
I've been morbidly fascinated by this thing on 'animal planet' called "fatal attractions". In that, people start to believe their dangerous animals are humans, under their skin, and wind up dead. Surely, it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling to believe such a thing. The heart is the great...
A new "recycling" technology called "bio-cremation" liquefies the dead, then dumps their liquid remains into city sewers where solid and liquid waste are collected as "biosludge" to be dumped on food crops. Those crops, in turn, are fed back to humans as part of the mainstream food supp...
The weird thing about this dog is he seems to know what he’s supposed to do. For months he will trot out the doggie door and return positively dancing with pride. “Lookit me, people! Look what I did! I peed outside!!! Don’t you think I’m brilliant? Come on, give me some ...