A married couple of the town of Roermond in the Netherlands are forever separated by cemetery walls. According to Varik and Church Records of the 17th Century,In 1842 a twenty-two year old Catholic woman of nobility (J.W...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/29/Reaching-Across-from-the-Grave/
The people of Tana Toraja, an island in Indonesia, have a richly developed body of practices for mourning. Among them is a unique approach to marking the death of a baby. If a child dies before s/he teethes, the family c...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/10/The-Baby-Grave-Trees-of-Tana-Toraja/
In the America of a century ago, grave robbing was a lucrative business. The deceased didn't seem to mind, but their living relatives did. So they often went to great lengths to secure the bodies, including the use of st...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/10/A-Gun-Designed-to-Fit-inside-a-Coffin-and-Shoot-Grave-Robbers/
In 18th century England, changes in the way medica... ...led to the development of devices used to protect graves . It also led to suspicions that body-snatchers al...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/11/grave-matters-the-body-snatchers-unearthed/
When Chinese computer geek Hu Chuang, 26, logg... ...time, his family decided to erect an appropriate gravestone : Chuang, 26, from Chongqing, south west China,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/06/computer-gravestone/
If you were to be buried in one of the unusual cemeteries in this list, people would visit your grave whether they cared about you or not! Some are beautiful, some scary, and some are just plain weird. One that I would r...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/10/top-10-unusual-cemeteries/
There is perhaps nothing else so distinctive of th... ...ana Toraja, everything revolves around death. The graves can be very sophisticated yet sometimes, long aft... ...from diseases caused by improper burials and mass graves in church cemeteries. Local authorities decided t...
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/10/01/10-most-fascinating-tombs-in-the-world/
