cemeteries
If You Love a Recipe Enough, You Can Put It on Your Grave
Instead of keeping their signature dishes secret, some people have immortalized their recipes for fudge or Christmas cookies in the most permanent place of all.
'I Could Show You Stuff You Wouldn’t Believe:' Gravediggers Speak Out About Horrifying Conditions
Gravediggers employed by one of the country’s largest cemetery and funeral home corporations, StoneMor, are battling for their first union contract—amid a COVID-related increase in burials.
Ecuador Is Dealing With Piles of Bodies as Coronavirus Ravages the Country
Hundreds of bodies of people who died at home had been kept on beds, or the floor, or even outside on the pavement.
Goth Didn't Die, It's Always Been Dead
Brazilian goths talk to us about representation, style, and cemeteries.
The Families Forced to Live in Cairo's Cemeteries
As a result of the city's housing crisis, around 1 million people are living in grave sites – and some have been there for decades.
The Women Who Want Their Corpses to Feed The Earth After They Die
Women have long been leaders in the death industry, but in recent years they have also pushed the industry to look to alternative burial practices.
Quebec Town Votes ‘No’ to Muslim Cemetery
The initiative was spearheaded by the same mosque where six men were killed earlier this year.
Your Corpse Could Become a Tree With Egg-Shaped Coffins Made of Seeds
What tree would you like to be buried beneath?
Cubs Fan in Cemetery Makes Good on Pact with Late Father to Listen to World Series Together
Wayne Williams and his late father had made a pact to listen the World Series together when the Cubs made it, so he went to the cemetery for Game 7.
Photos of the People Who Work in London's Graveyards
A selection of new work from photographer Jess Cole.
The Greeks Who Picnic on the Graves of Their Loved Ones
On the first Sunday after Easter, the living gather at the cemetery in the village of Rizana for a traditional lunch with the dead.