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Vandals knock over more than 40 headstones in Providence's historic North Burial Ground

Edit The Providence Journal 15 Apr 2016
— Vandals struck a newer section of the historic North Burial Ground overnight, knocking over headstones, breaking vases and cherubs, uprooting bulbs and scattering items left by loved ones.Between 40 and 60 graves were vandalized, and most of them belonged to people who died in the last 20 years, said Wendy Nilsson, superintendent of the Providence Parks Department, which operates the 112-acre [...]> ... ....

Unearthing respect: Woman finding lost graves at black cemetery

Edit Tampa Bay Online 15 Apr 2016
When she investigated, she found the burial vault of the Rev ... In the months that followed, Gray said, she has become so well-acquainted with the cemetery that she has learned the patterns of burial plots ... Burial plots were covered with dirt and grass, and some motorists who cut through the back of the cemetery drove over rows of graves....

Ex-funeral director pleads guilty to 1 of 4 charges

Edit The Roanoke Times 15 Apr 2016
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan funeral director accused of empty-box burials has pleaded guilty to drunken driving ... ....

Girl was poisoned by her own family: police

Edit The Hindu 15 Apr 2016
The parents and elder brother allegedly entered into a criminal conspiracy and gave her mango juice laced with pesticide on Monday evening ... Affair with electrician ... Khare said ... The next morning, she was cremated near the Lingayat burial ground in the village, though their community’s tradition is to bury the dead. ....

Parents gave spiked mango drink to girl

Edit The Times of India 15 Apr 2016
Mysuru. The 21-year-old girl who was hurriedly cremated in Nanjangud taluk a couple of days ago was a victim of honour killing, and her parents force-fed the girl with mango juice spiked with pesticide, police investigations have revealed. Superintendent of police Abhinav Khare on Thursday declared the murder a planned act ... She vomited in the next two hours ... Burial is their community's long-honoured custom ... ....

Honour killing: Parents gave spiked mango drink to girl

Edit The Times of India 15 Apr 2016
Mysuru. The 21-year-old girl who was hurriedly cremated in Nanjangud taluk a couple of days ago was a victim of honour killing, and her parents force-fed the girl with mango juice spiked with pesticide, police investigations have revealed. Superintendent of police Abhinav Khare on Thursday declared the murder a planned act ... She vomited in the next two hours ... Burial is their community's long-honoured custom ... ....

Green Party calls for natural burials as option to caskets, cremation

Edit CBC 14 Apr 2016
The leader of Manitoba's Green Party wants to see the province do more to encourage what he calls human composting — natural burials that are an alternative to caskets, tombstones or cremation ... ....

Burial set for Green Mountain Falls' beloved goose

Edit Denver Post 14 Apr 2016
Roy will be buried "next to his best friend" Rudy, an all-white goose who "taught Roy everything he knows." ... A burial service for the domesticated Chinese goose is at 11 a.m ... When Rudy was killed by a car, Roy took over as top goose....

Chitepo Mwashita Burials - Mugabe Praises Security Chiefs

Edit All Africa 14 Apr 2016
[New Zimbabwe] PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Wednesday praised the country's service chiefs, describing them as the best of a war veterans' corps who deserve their current lofty government positions ... ....

127 years on, city to get its 2nd Chinese cemetery at Wadala

Edit The Times of India 14 Apr 2016
Mumbai ... The BMC recently sanctioned funds to develop a proper Chinese cemetery 127 years after the original and the only burial ground for the city's 3,500-strong community ... "For the Chinese in the state, the burial would be at cost," said Chen, but for those from other states, it will come at a fee ... We have to remove the bones five years after burial and put them in the ground across the road with the same tombstone ... ....

This Japanese temple uses electronic ID cards to identify the dead

Edit Business Insider 14 Apr 2016
In Tokyo's shopping district stands a curving and elegant silver building that is reinventing the after-life. That is where, on the third floor of the Bansho-ji Temple, wall-to-wall Buddha statues represent 2,000 digitized burial plots ... The post-mortem innovation is the brainchild of architect Kiyoshi Takeyama, who designed the building in Nagoya as an alternative to the expensive tradition of soil-and-casket burials ... Copyright 2016 ... ....

Police Demand Dead Body Back At Funeral

Edit All Africa 14 Apr 2016
[New Era] The family of Festus Shikalepo Namalemo, a resident of Oluno in Oshana Region, are reeling in shock after police allegedly showed up at church a few minutes before burial and demanded back the corpse for a post-mortem examination ... ....

BJP seeks to make political issue out of demonstration against Dalit prof

Edit Indian Express 14 Apr 2016
A demonstration against a Dalit principal the day she retired from Government Victoria College, Palakkad, is turning into a political issue in Kerala, with the BJP taking up her cause against the Left Front. Dr T N Sarasu, who retired on March 31 after 27 years of service, was greeted with a “symbolic burial” on her last day ... Related Article ... “I was shocked to see students had given me a symbolic burial on my retirement day,” she said ... ....
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