Nelson Mandela's body has been laid to rest in a family plot, after political and religious leaders paid tribute to South Africa's first black president at a state funeral service.
Nelson Mandela's body has been laid to rest in a family plot, after political and religious leaders paid tribute to South Africa's first black president at a state funeral service.
Nelson Mandela's body has been laid to rest in a family plot, after political and religious leaders paid tribute to South Africa's first black president at a state funeral service.
In Parsi funerals, corpses are exposed to the rays of the sun, and then devoured by birds of prey. Vanishing populations of vultures have forced some Parsis to concentrate the sun's rays to help break down the bodies.
In Parsi funerals, corpses are exposed to the rays of the sun, and then devoured by birds of prey. Vanishing populations of vultures have forced some Parsis to concentrate the sun's rays to help break down the bodies.
Sati was a religious funeral practice among some Hindu communities in which a recently widowed woman immolates herself, voluntarily or by force, on her husband’s funeral pyre.
A former Los Angeles mortuary employee has been convicted of defrauding insurers by staging a fake funeral and attempting to cover it up by cremating a mannequin and cow parts she placed in the casket.
A former Los Angeles mortuary employee has been convicted of defrauding insurers by staging a fake funeral and attempting to cover it up by cremating a mannequin and cow parts she placed in the casket.